| Trends and Differentials in Parity Progression among Northern and Southern Women in India |
| Authors: |
K. K. Singh, and Shruti Verma |
| Source: |
Asian Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, 4(3): 42-56 |
| Topic(s): |
Parity
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| Country: |
Asia
India
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| Published: |
MAR 2014 |
| Abstract: |
Parity progression ratio (PPR), i.e. the conditional probability of progression to the (i+1)th parity for
the women of ith parity, is the most important measure of child limiting behavior of any population.
PPR is recognized as a significant measure of fertility dynamics and family building process, but its
estimation methods involve different complexities for different types of data. In the present paper a
methodology has been proposed to estimate PPR’s considering PPR as a function of time. Utilizing
the proposed methodology investigation of differentials in trends in PPR’s in northern and southern
regions of India has been made among different parity cohorts of women using the data of National
Family Health Survey -III. Northern and southern region show wide differentials in PPR among
themselves and also clear differentials can be observed in PPR’s with respect to time within the
same region. PPR’s are continuously decreasing from older to recent parity cohorts but in northern
region decline is not as significant as that in southern region. It is observed that northern region is
still very far from adoption of one or two child norm as compared to the southern region.
Keywords: Parity progression ratio, parity cohort, fertile, sterile. |
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