IASSI-Quarterly

UGC CARE (Group 1)
  • Year: 2021
  • Volume: 40
  • Issue: 1

Fertility transition and its socio-economic factors in West Bengal, India

  • Author:
  • Tapan Debnath1, Bhupen Barman2, Ranjan Roy3, Nazrul Islam4
  • Total Page Count: 13
  • Page Number: 107 to 119

1Ph.D. Research Scholar, Department of Geography & Applied Geography, North Bengal University, Email: tapandebnath920@gmail.com

2Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Tufanganj Mahavidyalaya, Cooch Behar, West Bengal, Email: bhugeo18@nbu.ac.in

3Professor, Department of Geography & Applied Geography, North Bengal University, Email: royranjangeo@gmail.com

4Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University, Cooch Behar, West Bengal, Email: islamnazrul975@gmail.com, respectively

Online published on 10 May, 2021.

Abstract

Fertility projection assumes that the rate of fertility declines until it reaches the replacement level. West Bengal reached “the replacement level of fertility” (TFR 2.1) in 2005. The total fertility rate was 4.8 in 1981, which reached 1.6 in the next 36 years. The study shows the trend of fertility and determines how much socio-economic variables are reflecting fertility. To analyze the district level fertility pattern, the study carried out the Cox Proportional Hazard Model to show the hazard risk, using Child Women Ratio and total fertility rate by the background variable. West Bengal is going through a significant declining trend in fertility at the recent time.

Keywords

Fertility transition, Replacement level of fertility, Total fertility rate, Child women ratio, Hazard ratio