Son preference and contraceptive practice among tribal groups in rural South India

dc.contributor.authorAppunni, Sathiya Susuman
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-25T11:11:38Z
dc.date.available2013-11-25T11:11:38Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the son preference and contraceptive practice among tribal groups in rural south India. Parents’ preferences for the sex of their children have constituted an important theme in population and social research over the past three decades. Data were collected from a household survey of 398 currently married women of reproductive age group (15-49) from four taluks in the Nilgiris District of rural Tamilnadu are selected with respect to the different tribal communities. Cross tabulation and logistic regression analysis was carried out for finding out relationships between the socio-economic, demographic variables on contraceptive practice. The use of contraceptive practice by tribal groups in rural areas is strongly linked to individual and household socio-economic and demographic variables. Findings shows that the expectation that a son will provide financial support in old age is strongly associated with the response that a son is important. Son preference is slightly more among the tribal women, particularly among the users of spacing method who are more among those preferring the sons. Some of the socio-economic variables like education of husband and occupation have shown negative influence on higher fertility and positive influence on contraceptive use among the tribal women. It is proposed that there is need for more comprehensive on tribes in different areas in state and in the Indian nation to explicitly bring out the son preference attitudes of tribal people, which have an impact on their fertility and family planning practices.en_US
dc.description.accreditationInternational Bibliography of Social Sciencesen_US
dc.identifier.citationAppunni, S.S. (2006). Son preference and contraceptive practice among tribal groups in rural South India. Studies of Tribes and Tribals, 4(1): 31-40en_US
dc.identifier.issn0972-639X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/857
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherKamla-Raj Enterprisesen_US
dc.rightsThis is the post-print version of the published article
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectPreferenceen_US
dc.subjectCurrently married womenen_US
dc.subjectReproductiveen_US
dc.subjectFamily planningen_US
dc.titleSon preference and contraceptive practice among tribal groups in rural South Indiaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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