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

Kumudini Dandekar , Vaijayanti Bhate , Jeroo Coyaji , Surekha Nikam

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It is a common view that something is wrong with the family planning programme in India. This is because the birth rate in India persisted at its high level even after the efforts of the first three five-year plans (i.e. till 1966) to bring it down. Even in 1972 the estimate of birth rate is 36.4 as given by Sample Registration Scheme.

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Kumudini Dandekar , Jayanti Bhate

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During 1951-66 the period for the first three Five-Year Plans, some effective and non-effective attempts were made to change rural India. The idea was to raise and help emerge a new personality structure in rural areas suited for the production of wealth and mitigating poverty. The main tool used was the effort of the five year plans.

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Kumudini Dandekar , Vijayanti Bhate

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(A review of the report on a follow-up study of lUCD by the Planning Research and Action Institute of Lucknow, May 1969).

A number of research centers in the country are working in the field of demography and quite a few reports are coming out either in print or in mimeographed form. It is difficult to review all such reports.

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Kumudini Dandekar

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IT is proposed to analyse in this article, the interstate differences in vital rates and the recent efforts at promotion of family planning. The idea in putting these two together is to examine possibly the present and the future association between the two. If the fertility rates in the various states are different, the efforts at family planning may have more urgency in those states that have higher fertility than in others. If they are not, the differences in the efforts at family planning may produce differences in future in the fertility rates of the states.

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Kumudini Dandekar , D. B. Unde

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There are no data available for household as a unit in any of the censuses in India prior to 1951. The data In the earlier censuses provide occasionally the number of households and the total population in them so that the average size of households can be calculated for broad regions. But there too, the terms house Mid household are often confused and the data consequently become defective. It was only in the Census of 1951 that some data regarding households were gathered and presents! in the census reports. These included the size of households and their composition.

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Kumudini Dandekar

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It is intended to get here an estimate of the number of couples that may be helped to stop child-bearing so that the birth-rate declines by a given percentage. Hereafter this number is referred to as the target. From the performance of the sterilization programme and the I.U.D. progrramme in a limited area, the possible attainments during the next 10 years in the decline in birth-rate due to these programmes have been assessed in this paper.

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Kumudini Dandekar

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THE after-effects of vasectomy have been the subject of many speculations here and abroad. These speculations centre round such questions as : Is it possible to have normal sexual relations after it? Does vasectomy affect the sexual desire? Does it do any harm to the normal behaviour of a male as a male? Studies to answer such questions being few, we conducted an enquiry into the after-effects of vasectomy with the help of a team of doctors.

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Kumudini Dandekar

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In Artha Vijnana, in its issue of September, 1960 as article on graduation of fertility rates was published. In this article a third degree polynomial was fitted to the observed age specific fertility rates for 10 samples of women that were surveyed. Each sample consisted of about a thousand women and the third degree polynomial was found to give a satisfactory fit to the observed fertility rates.

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Kumudini Dandekar

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The urgent need of measures to control the growth of population in India through a reduction of the number of births is now generally recognized. Like many other state governments, the Government of Maharashtra is actively promoting a programme of family planning and limitation in the state.

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Kumudini Dandekar

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A normal procedure for obtaining age-specific fertility rates by means of a sample survey is to enquire about the present ages of the women covered by the survey and whether they had given birth to a child during a specified year such as the year preceding the date of enquiry.

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Kumudini Dandekar

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An analysis of the attitudes of people towards family planning in rural and urban areas of the state of Bombay was attempted, in the section in Demography and Population Studies ol the Gokhale Institute.

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