Fertility Pattern and Its Correlates in North East India

Abstract

In this paper, fertility differentials of married couples of North Eastern States were studied in relation to their different socio-demographic characteristics by using NFHS-2 data. Effects of socioeconomic factors that influence fertility viz. literacy, religion, occupation, socioeconomic status, child mortality and uses of contraceptives of spouses were analyzed. Mother’s age, age at marriage and duration of breast feeding has also been studied to observe their influence on fertility. Finally regression analyses were done for the couples who had and had not experienced child loss separately to identify the significant influential factors on fertility. Explanatory variables were included in the regression model after investigating the presence of multicollinearity.

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