{"title":"Demographic and Socio-economic Characteristics Impact on Fertility in Pakistan","authors":"","doi":"10.51709/19951272/summer2022/10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51709/19951272/summer2022/10","url":null,"abstract":"Fertility is the actual reproductive performance of an individual, a couple\u0000which determines the country’s population size. Pakistan is the 5th most\u0000Populus country in the world with high fertility rate in regional countries.\u0000The trustworthy secondary data were taken from National Institute of\u0000Population Studies, Pakistan and analyzed. The mean and standard\u0000deviation of children ever born (CEB) was estimated 3.2±2.41. Poisson\u0000and logistic regression models were applied to study the substantial role of\u0000eight socio-economic and demographic variables regarding CEB. Poisson\u0000regression illustrated that contraceptive and length of marriage positively\u0000correlated with CEB, whereas the women education, age at marriage and\u0000wealth index showed an inverse relationship with CEB. The women\u0000education i.e., illiterate, primary education, secondary education and\u0000higher education is 50%, 13.9%, 20.8% and 15.3% and the corresponding\u0000mean CEB are 2.73, 2.48, 2.34, and 2.16, respectively. The logistic\u0000regression model demonstrated the negative relation between the odds\u0000ratio and women education and age at marriage while the family size and\u0000length of the marriage were found to be positively correlated. If the\u0000respondent remains married for 10+ years, the odds ratio of having a large\u0000family is increased by a factor of 21.352 keeping the effect of other\u0000variables kept constant. The fitted parsimonious logistic regression\u0000model’s correct classification for small family, large family and overall are\u000082.3%, 83% and 82.7% respectively. The findings, thus, have enormous\u0000implications for the Government and Population welfare Departments\u0000about policies formulations","PeriodicalId":43392,"journal":{"name":"FWU Journal of Social Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45493493","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of Social Reality of Spousal Relationship Depicted in Pakistan\u0000Television Prime time Dramas","authors":"","doi":"10.51709/19951272/summer2022/3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.51709/19951272/summer2022/3","url":null,"abstract":"The main focus of this study is placed on depiction of\u0000spousal relationship in prime time dramas of Pakistani\u0000television channel. In order to collect a quantitative baseline\u0000information on the topic, the study utilized message system\u0000analysis of the social reality of spousal relationship\u0000portrayed in prime time dramas of Pakistani television\u0000channel. For probability sampling, a 6-day week was\u0000constructed from July 2020-June 2021. The results of\u0000analysis revealed that Pakistani prime time dramas show\u0000both healthy and unhealthy aspects of spousal relationship.\u0000However, unhealthy aspects are shown more frequently than\u0000the positive aspects. The present study also concluded that\u0000sacrifice, lies, fraud, materialism, criticism and selfishness\u0000were more frequently depicted with respect to wives while\u0000support, dominance, aggression, infidelity, relationship\u0000commitment and romantic gestures were associated with\u0000husbands.","PeriodicalId":43392,"journal":{"name":"FWU Journal of Social Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48913509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}