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Demographers all over the world did a lot of research on the Fertility behaviour. However, in India research on micro level fertility studies of certain communities are in scares. Only few studies are focused on different castes, religious groups and tribals. Each of these communities has its own socio-cultural and religious factors which have significant influence on the fertility behaivour. Among these communities Brahmins have differential fertility due to ...
The consensus arising from these diverse studies suggested that among less developed societies, the perceived and actual, current and expected contributions of children to the household economy were in fact related with demand for children or family size desires. The extent, to which this translates into changes in fertility behaviour, interms of contraception and marital fertility, was not very clear. As such, the present research study attempts to examine the ...