Since India’s independence, population stabilization has been one of the prime concerns in its development agenda.

This paper critically analyses issues related to gender and land rights in the state of Rajasthan.

This paper examines the relationship between gender inequality and food security, with a particular focus on women as food producers, consumers, and family food managers.

IT was once thought that fertility below a level could not be achieved without changes in the material conditions of the people.

Religion has a significant relevance in the demographic study of socio-economic groups.

Religion has a significant relevance in the demographic study of socio-economic groups.

This study analyzes longitudinal data from Matlab, Bangladesh, to examine the impact of child mortality on subsequent contraceptive acceptance and continuation.

The recent decline in fertility in Bangladesh froin a total fertility rate of 6.3 children per women in 1975 to 3.5 in 1995 (MHPC, 1978:73; BBS, 1996) has created interest among researchers, policy makers and academicians.

In this report, we propose new measures of wanted and unwanted fertility based on actual and wanted parity progression ratios, and we apply these procedures to NFHS data for eight states in India.