Demographic Dynamics of Maternal and Child Health among the people of Todapur-Dasghara, Delhi

Fertility is generally used to indicate the actual reproductive performance of a woman or a group of women. The present study was conducted to study the demographic profile of Todapur and Dasghara women and children in Delhi. The data were collected from Jat dominated villages in different months of the year 2013–2014 from 900 households. The main focus of the interview was the ever married women in the reproductive age group of 15 to 55 years and their hildren. The data was collected through interviews and observations. Data on reproductive history, vital events, family planning etc was collected. The results revealed that 38.6% of people are original inhabitants of Todapur, 17.4% from Dasghara and the rest from Bihar. The age at marriage is as low that is as 15 years. More than 5.3% of the woman in the age group of 15 to 19 years have ever had a child reflecting the past pattern of relatively early marriage and child bearing. The mean duration of postpartum amenorrhoea is 4.9 months and the mean age at Menarche is 13.99 years.