{"title":"Determinants of age at marriage of females in India.","authors":"A Pandey","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"In the present paper some socio-economic determinants of female nuptiality in India have been discussed. An integrated path analysis approach is adopted to ascertain the direct, indirect and joint effect of the socio-economic factors on the age at marriage of females in rural and urban areas of various states of India. From the analysis, it became evident that effective literacy is the most dominant factor influencing the age at marriage of the females. Poverty is also a contributing factor in preventing a rise in the age at marriage.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"2 2","pages":"105-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011044","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":"Migration data corrected for mortality risk: India, 1961-71.","authors":"P Ramachandran","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"The migration data of the census relate to surviving migrants only. Therefore those who had moved out from region i to j, but died before the census date cannot be taken into account while calculating migration rates. By correcting the Indian migration data for mortality risk, the extent of under estimation of migrants has been found to be about 4.8 percent for a duration of 5 year period and 9.7 percent for a duration of 10 years prior to the Census of 1971.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"2 2","pages":"75-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011047","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":"Demography of sterilization: Indian experience.","authors":"S G Roy","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using program statistics and a few local studies, the paper examines the prevalence of sterilization in India and makes demographic analysis of the performance. Major points of note are that the prevalence rates expressed in terms of currently married women showed irregular fluctuations across time and the age pattern of acceptance hardly agreed with that of the married population. The selectivity of high fertility couples for sterilization had been fairly high, resulting in a low fertility impact. Estimates of births averted due to the program were derived by using a computerized microsimulation model CONVERSE. It appears that the path of fertility changes was not smooth in the last decade and the impact has been, as a rule, greatest 2 years after acceptance.</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"2 1","pages":"51-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22006752","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":"A modification of a model for number of births and estimation of age specific fecundability and sterility.","authors":"B N Bhattacharya, K K Singh","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"This paper deals with derivation of models to describe the number of births to women during interval (O,T) of length T, when the start of the observation is marriage as well as when it is a distant point after marriage. These models are extensions of the models of Singh, et al., (1973) and of Sheps and Menken (1973) and can suitably be applied to data for short periods of observation as the parameters are assumed to be homogeneous in time. The methods to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters are outlined.\" The models are applied to data from a sample survey on rural development and population growth carried out by the Demographic Research Centre of Banaras Hindu University in 1978 in order to examine trends in fecundability and sterility by age of women.</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"2 1","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22007471","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":"About Laplace transforms of the distribution of births in the initial population with unchanging net maternity rates.","authors":"S Mitra","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"The solutions of the integral equation for the stable population by Laplace transform have been examined by shifting the origin from t=0 to other points in time. The relationship between the birth functions generated by the initial populations measured from different points of time has been found to be very simple and straight forward.\" The author also shows \"that for a stable population, the total number of births in the next generation can be expressed as a simple function of the net reproduction rate, the intrinsic rate of growth and number of births at the beginning of the process. For the stationary population, the same relationship simplifies even further and is given in terms of the product of the number of births at the beginning of the process and the average age of motherhood.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"2 1","pages":"45-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22007475","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":"The effects of age mis-statement on estimates of net migration.","authors":"B L Boulier","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"This paper presents an explicit derivation of effects of age misstatement on census survival rates (CSR) and life table survival rate (LTSR) estimates of net migration and net migration rates. In the presence of age misstatement, CSR estimates of migration and migration rates are generally biased, although the direction of bias is not always clear. The paper also shows how the analysis of errors due to age misstatement is related to past analyses of errors due to underenumeration.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"2 1","pages":"29-37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22007473","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":"A simple proof of the weak ergodicity theorem in demography.","authors":"M Sivamoorthy","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"The proof of weak ergodicity of the age distribution has been given by Lopez using matrix algebra and also by McFarland using an elementary approach. This paper presents a simple proof of the theorem using the law of averages. The assumptions involved are almost the same as those assumed by McFarland.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"2 1","pages":"39-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22007474","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":"Patterns of child migration and child migrant labour in the cities of India.","authors":"N R Prabhakara","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"Using the data of the Indian Census of 1961, this study examines the rate of child migration to the cities of India and the proportion of the migrant children who were engaged in the labour force. The volume of child migration is found to be positively associated with total migration. Just over a fifth of the urban children were migrants but nearly forty percent of the child labourers were migrant children who were found to be concentrated in a few occupational divisions. Rural migrant children were short distance migrants while urban migrant children made long distance moves.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"2 1","pages":"19-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1984-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22007472","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":"The influence of female education, labour force participation and age at marriage on fertility behaviour in Bangladesh.","authors":"R H Chaudhury","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"The purpose of this paper was to study the relationship between certain aspects of the status of women (i.e., education, work experience and age at marriage) and the use of contraception and fertility, using data collected by the Bangladesh Fertility Survey (BFS) of 1975....\" The analysis is presented separately for rural and urban areas. \"Results of the tests in brief are as follows: (a) Education is found to be strongly correlated with the use of contraception within each sub-group of the study population.... Education is positively related with use of contraception and negatively with fertility....(b) age at marriage is found to be the most important factor explaining fertility for every sub-group of the study population. Couples marrying at higher ages are likely to have fewer children....and (c) work experience has very little or no effect on current use of contraception and fertility....\"</p>","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"1 2","pages":"143-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22025531","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}
JanasamkhyaPub Date : 1983-12-01DOI: 10.2307/1966956
R. H. Chaudhury
{"title":"The influence of female education, labour force participation and age at marriage on fertility behaviour in Bangladesh.","authors":"R. H. Chaudhury","doi":"10.2307/1966956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1966956","url":null,"abstract":"\"The purpose of this paper was to study the relationship between certain aspects of the status of women (i.e., education, work experience and age at marriage) and the use of contraception and fertility, using data collected by the Bangladesh Fertility Survey (BFS) of 1975....\" The analysis is presented separately for rural and urban areas. \"Results of the tests in brief are as follows: (a) Education is found to be strongly correlated with the use of contraception within each sub-group of the study population.... Education is positively related with use of contraception and negatively with fertility....(b) age at marriage is found to be the most important factor explaining fertility for every sub-group of the study population. Couples marrying at higher ages are likely to have fewer children....and (c) work experience has very little or no effect on current use of contraception and fertility....\"","PeriodicalId":84956,"journal":{"name":"Janasamkhya","volume":"1 1","pages":"143-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1983-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81177249","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}