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Item Fertility Behaviours of Dalit Community (A case Study of Parbatipur VDC, Manipur Chitwan))(Department of Population studies, 2009-04) Gautam, Sarswati GautamThe main purpose of this study is to examine the ''Fertility Behaviour ofDalit Community: A Case Study in Parbatipur VDC,Manipur, Chitwan''in terms of selecteddemographic and socio-economic variables. Thestudy sample included 127 ever married women of reproductive agesfrom 127 households with 843 entire family members. Household andindividual levelinformationwere collected. Among total Dalit population,male constitute 43.53 percentandfemaleconstitute 56.46 percent and hence the sex ratio is 71.1. Highconcentration seems in the age group 15-19 years i.e. 12.5 percent formale and 19.5 percent for females. About 52.9 percent people aremarried. Out of the eligible women 86.6 percent are married under20years of age. The literacy rate of the Dalit population is 82.8 percentand the 23.6 percent of eligible women are illiterate. The sample womendominantly do household work. Only 48.8 percent couples ofreproductive age werefoundas thecurrentlyuserofcontraception. High fertility culture was shown by these people. Women of age group45-49 years had 3.5 mean CEB. Lower fertility behaviour wasassociated with literacy and having higher age at marriage. Betteroccupation status helps to reduce fertility. Use of contraception, age at marriage, literacy status and occupation ofrespondents are found to be inversely (negatively) associated with thenumber of fertility(CEB). It is argued that fertility remains high due to high child mortality. High fertility has ensured high dependency and burden. Similarly,current skewed distribution of population towards the younger ages would result high fertility level in some year to come.Item Sociological Aspects of Fertility Behavior among Dalit Community in Lamachaur VDC, Kaski(Faculty of Sociology, 2014) Paudel, PramilaThe main objective of the study is to examine the fertility behavior of lower caste people in relation to demographic and socio economic variables. This study is based on descriptive cum analytical research design.Every household of Dalit community inward no 6, 7 and 8 of Lamachaur VDC are included in the study. There are 85 household and 85 eligible women have been administered the questionnaire relating to fertility out of 420 entire family members. Out of the total 420 population from 85 households, 51.20 percent were male and 48.80 percent were female. Among these 85 female were eligible respondents of reproductive aged 15–49 years.Out of total eligible women, 78 eligible women were ever heard about the family planning methods. Similarly, out of total respondents 57.64 percent women were currently using family planning methods. Among users 27.06 percent were the users of female sterilization, followed by Depo 12.94 percent,male sterilization 9.41 percent, Pills 7.06 percent and IUD 1.18 percent.Out of total respondents, 62.3 percent women are engaged in daily wage. This was followed by household work (32.91%), agriculture as well as business 2.41 percent. The mean CEB of entire women of the study was found 2.74. There was positive relationship between CEB and age group. Child bearing is highly concentrated in the age group 40–44.The literate women have low fertility level than the illiterate women. There is negative relationship between fertility and age at marriage. The mean number of CEB is 3.10 for the women who married between ages 10–14. This was the highest mean CEB of the study population. The mean CEB was found lowest(2.62) where age at marriage was age group of 15-19 years.The mean CEB was the highest (3) among those who involved in agriculture followed by daily wage of 2.96.The lowest mean CEB was found among those who involved in household work.The study reveals that there is positive relationship between children dead and Mean.