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FERTILITY DECLINE UNDER SEEMINGLY UNFAVOURABLE CONDITIONS IN ORISSA, INDIA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2012

HARIHAR SAHOO
HARIHAR SAHOO
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Maharashtra, India
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Summary

Orissa, one of the extremely backward states of India with moderately high infant mortality, extreme poverty, low female literacy and very low level of industrialization and urbanization, has shown an impressive fertility decline in the last two decades. This anomaly calls for an indepth understanding of the fertility transition of the state. An analysis of the period parity progression ratios computed from the fertility histories obtained in the National Family Health Survey III shows a high progression up to the second birth, but a gradual decline after that. Thus, the transition at low level of socioeconomic development suggests a fall in the thresholds for fertility decline from levels presumed to be required in the past.

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Short Report
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 135 - 140
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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