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

O. P. Vig

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The concept of family planning in the sense of deliberate attempt on the part of married couples to space the births of their children and to plan the size of their family in relation to their social, economic and health status, has only recently come to India.

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O. P. Vig

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Lotka has defined stable popalation as a population closed to migration and influenced by relatively constant age-schedules of fertility and mortality. He maintains that such a population will attain, after a number of years, a fixed rate of growth and a fixed age-distribution.

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O. P. Vig

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The purpose of this paper is to evolve a method for estimating some fertility measures like net reproduction rate and total fertility without the use of age-specific fertility-rates for which information is not available for all-India.

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