Fertility Behaviour of Tamang Community of Haranamadi VDC Makawanpur District

Abstract

The study on the “Fertility Behavior of Tamang Community of Harnamadi VDC, Makawanpur” was carried out by collecting primary data. The main objectives of this study are: to identify the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of married Tamang women of 15-49 years of Harnamadi VDC; examine the relationship between the fertility behavior and cultural setting of Tamang women to examine the relationship between children ever born and education,occupation, age at marriage, economic condition. This study is based on primary data which are collected from the 550married women including 109 Tamang eligible women of 15-49 years who aresuccessfully interviewed by applying sampling in Harnamadi VDC of Makawanpur district. The married women were interviewed to show the general socio-economic and democratic characteristics of the study area and the women of reproductive age were interviewed to examine the fertility behaviour on the basis of socio cultural and economic variables. The relation between fertility and selected socio-economic and demographic variables are examined by using mean, cross and frequency tables. The major finding of the study area are: the mean CEB is positively associated with age group of women the mean CEB is negatively associated with education and use of contraception and their average mean CEB was found 2.8.