Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

K. Venkatacharya

Abstract

A number of research workers have agreed that by raising age at marriage the fertility level (in terms of birth rates) may be made to decrease (Coale and Tye, 1961; Agarwala, 1965, 1960; Ryder, 1960 etc). However, there is variation in the quantification of this reduction depending upon the assumptions made and methods used by the individual researchers.

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K. Venkatacharya

Abstract

In the Journal of Family Welfare (Vol. XIII, No. 2, Dec. '66) Dr. K. Srinivasan has indicated the possible use of open birth interval (the interval between survey date and last birth) as a better indicator of changing fertility than the closed birth interval (interval between two births). However, the present author has not found all favour for the use of open birth interval, despite the fact that the closed birth interval cannot be used in certain circumstances such as the ones mentioned in the above article.

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