Pitambar AcharyaGhimire, Laxuman2026-05-152026-05-152022https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14540/26717The thesis entitled "Educational Status and its effects on birth spacing among marriedwomen Sidingwa Gaupalika Ward No. 6, Taplejung". The main objective of thisstudy was to find out the educational status of married people, to identify theknowledge and situation of birth spacing and to explore the effect of educationalstatus of the respondents regarding birth spacing from the married Limbu womenfertility age group (15-49) with at least two children. The study followed descriptiveand quantitative research design. Interview schedule was used to collect the data from150 respondents Limbu married women. The data were analyzed and interpretedmanually, the data were presented in tables and figures with respective frequencysand percentage. Most of the respondents in this study were aware of birth spacing. In the studyarea 68.10 percent literate respondents and 44.12 percent of illiterate respondent werefound to be knowledge of birth spacing. Respondents in this study area found birthspacing age gap between first child and second child one year, two year, three year,four year and five years. Most of respondents in this study area were found to haveknowledge of contraceptive device but they do not use contraceptive for birth spacing.This study area found that do not use contraceptive devices due to not easy available16.67 percent literate respondent and 21.17 percent illiterate respondent. But currentlyused contraceptive only 48.28 percent literate respondents and 26.47 percent ofilliterate respondents. Overall the study area found that a literate respondents andilliterate respondents have not equal knowledge, practice and birth spacing. Here isn'tequal knowledge of contraceptive and its use. In this study were found most of theeffect of the educational status according to the respondents’ responses. Although itwas found to be knowledge and practice are good but not very bad.en-USMarried womenChildhoodThesis