Differential fertility in rural Hindu community: a sample survey of the rural Uttar Pradesh, India
Saxena, G.B.
Eugenics Quarterly 12(3): 137-145
1965
ISSN/ISBN: 0097-2762 PMID: 5831509 DOI: 10.1080/19485565.1965.9987621Document Number: 312880
The average number of children born to a female throughout her reproductive period is quite high. The high number of births is explained by the early occurrence of fertility and its failure to decline with age. The data reveal an inverse relation between caste and fertility. Occupation does not seem to affect the family-building pattern, possibly because it is less associated than caste with the cultural patterns affecting fertility, such as differential abstinence periods and different degrees of taboos on sexual behavior.