Fertility Trends in Gujarat

Abstract

The success of a good planning strategy for the overall development of any society (population) depends upon two main factors. First, the measures incorporated in it should be such that they can be efficiently implemented to bring about the desired changes, and second, that they are based upon the key socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of the population and the level to which these indicators are to be improved by the introduction of the new measures or schemes.

The latter prerequisite requires the most recent information about the location of the population in question preferably by districts and a break-up by rural-urban residence, sex, age and social groups, as also reliable fertility, mortality and migration rates. Mathematically, population growth depends upon the "increase
in population" and "shift in population". The former is related to fertility and mortality, while the latter is related to "net-migration" which is the difference between in-migration and out-migration.