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Item Fertility Behaviour of Magar CommuniTY [A Study of Salyankot VDC, Dhading](Department of Population Studies, 2009) Magar, Bhim Bahadur ThapaThis Study deals with “Fertility behavior of Magar Community: AStudy of Salyankot VDC, Dhading”. To complete this Study primary andsecondary data are collected. The analysis and interpretation of data arecarried out by frequency and cross tabulation. This Study is mainly based on the consideration that fertility isdetermined by different socio-economic and demographic variables. Only135 respondents of Magar community in Salyankot VDC are taken toexamine the relation of fertility with socio-economic and somedemographic variables. The specific objectives of this analysis are socio-economic anddemographic characteristics of ever married women of aged (15-49) toaccess the relationship between fertility and specific socio-economicvariables as education, occupation, income and land holding size, andalso to study the relation with fertility (CEB) and some demographicvariables like age at marriage, child loss experience and knowledge offamily planning methods. Among the total population of this VDC's Magar households malesoccurs 51.9 percent and female 48.1 percent.Sex ratio is 108 which isgreater than national level sex ratio as 99.8. Out of total population ofboth sexes of aged 6 years and above the literacy rate is accounted 70.86percent and the rest 29.14% are illiterate. Most of the respondents foundto be engaged in households service and agriculture and same conditionin sampled households. Majority of the respondents (65.2%) marriedbefore they reached 20 years, which bring the high fertility. More than 73percent of the respondents heard about family planning method. Among 5 sampled respondents 48.15 percent are literate and the rest 51.85 percentare illiterate. Accordingly, the mean number of CEB of respondents is (3.3) inMagar community of this VDC. the number of CEB is found inincreasing order with increasing age of respondents. Women in agegroups (45-49) years have highest mean CEB of (5.26) per women. Relationship between educational and occupational status ofrespondents with mean CEB are found to be inversely associated whilechild loss experience and family planning methods users are found to bepositively associated with the fertility.Item Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Contraceptive Methods (A Case Study of Gurung Married Women of Reproductive age Group (15-49), Gumi VDC, Ward No.1, 4 And 5 At Surkhet district)(Department of Population Studies, 2009) Ghale, BinodThe study onKnowledge, Attitude andPractice of ContraceptiveMethods in GurungCommunity has been carried out using primary dataobtained from 101 households of 101 currently married women of reproductiveage in Gumi VDC, ward No. 1, 4, and 5 of Surkhet district. The objectives ofthis study are: to identify the knowledge of any contraceptive method amongmarried women of 15-19 years of age. to find out the attitude of contraceptive devices among themarried women of reproductive age. to identify the reason for use and non use of contraceptivemethods of married women. The total sample population is 490 in the study area among them 246 aremales and 244 are females. The average size of household is 4.9 percent. Thesex ratio is fund 100.8. The overall literacy rate has been found 82 percent. Themajor occupation isobtained agriculture (82.2%). Majority of currently married women (98%) are familiar with at leastone contraceptive method. Among the specific method injection appears to bethe best known method (40.5%). Modern contraceptive methods are morefamiliar than traditional methods among Gurung women. About 73.3 percent respondents have stated that the principal advantageof contraception is to make happy family life. More or less 51.5 percent womenhave reported that there should be above 4 years interval between two births. The ever user rate is found 88.1 percent whereas current user rat is 73.3percent. The most practiced contraceptive method is injection (40.5%). Theliner relationship is found between number of living children and current use ofcontraceptives methods. Level of education of women and practice ofcontraceptive are positively correlated. The peak use of contraceptive methodsis found in those women who have already one son. Main reason for not usingcontraceptive method is found to want children. Irregular menstruationweakness is found the main side-effect of contraceptive methods among currentusers of Gurung women.Item Safe Motherhood Practices in Muslim community of Nepal(Department of Population Studies, 2009) Srivastava, PravinThe study on the “Safe Motherhood Practices in Muslim Community of Nepal” a casestudy is carried out by collecting primary data from selected wards of KapilvastuMunicipality. The main objective of the study is to find the knowledge and utilization ofsafe motherhood practices by the women of reproductive age 15-49 as the targetpopulation. The objective of the study is to examine the utilization of prenatal care, postnatal care andcare during delivery and also to find out the level of knowledge, attitude, availability andaccessibility of safe motherhood services. The main chosen foe this research areAntenatal checkup, TT vaccination, receiving iron and vitamin ‘A’, delivery assistance,place of delivery, use of safe delivery kit, postnatal care and time to health services. Research show that only 47.9 percent received antenatal care, 41.6 percent have receivedIron tablets 72.9 percent of respondents have received T.Tvaccination and the percent ofrespondents receiving vitamin 'A' is low that is only 37.5 percent similarly, mostrespondents (52%) have faced problem during pregnancy. If we observe the situation delivery care of study population 62.5 percent delivery areoccurred in house where as 52.2 percent delivery are assisted by TBA. Similarly 29.1percent respondents have safe delivery kit. The study show the utilization of postnatalcare is high in the study population i.e. 95.9 percent. But more of respondents 41.3percent are visited TBA.Item Utilization of Safe Motherhood Services (A case study at Vyas Municipality, Tanahun)(Department of Population Studies, 2009) Gautam, SubnamThe title of the study is Utilization on Safe motherhood Services at Vyas Municipality of Tanahun focusing on antenatal care by the married women of reproductive age who had less than one year of children including recently delivered. The purpose of this study was investigated the different variables of the women of reproductive age and utilization of safe motherhood services.The study also tried to understand the factors that lead to use and non-user orservices. The study has used structured questionnaire to collect the quantitative data from a specific population at a particular point of time.Vyas Municipality of Tanahun district was selected purposively in order to conduct this study. The study population was women of reproductive age (15-49) with less than one-year child including recently delivered. Information was collected from all the eligible women (117) of all the eligible household of themunicipality during the period of Kartik 2066 B.S. This study focused on sociodemographic characteristic, knowledge on ANC Services, status of use and non-use of services, services centers related factors, service provider factors and family/social factors.From the study it was found that 87.2 percent of the respondent had knowledge about safe motherhood. It was found that 90.6 percent respondents visited ANC services center for ANC services. Majority of users and non-user of serviceswere aged between 20-25 years of age. The women from privileged class didnot use services. Majority of the users and non-user were housewife and engaged in Business. Among the total respondents who visited ANC service center, (n-106) almost 54.7 percent of the respondents received ANC from district hospital, 32.2 percent receive ANC from Trained TBA. The most important reasons for visiting those sites and using services were nearness of ANC service center and cheaper services 17.0 and 35.0 respectively. Similarly,cooperative behavior of the service provider and less time in use of serviceswas other reasons. Among the total respondent only 9.6 percent did not useANC services. Respondent own and family awareness seemed most important affecting factors for non-use such as no need to visit, restriction by mother in-law and husband. Center (no privacy, expensive to cheaper services, distance)and services provider (male services provider, difficult examination procedure,uncooperative) were other factors associated with non-use of ANC service.