Abstract
The fertility level is the phenomenon which is the major
determinant of population growth. Various studies conducted since early
seventies and to date reveal that total fertility rate in Pakistan
ranged between 6 to 5.4 and crude birth rate between 42 to 34
[Population Planning Council of Pakistan (1976); Population Welfare
Division of Pakistan (1986); Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey
(199O) and Population and Fertility Indicators (1993). The levels and
trends in fertility are influenced by various physiological, cultural,
social, economic, behavioural, demographic and ecological factors. But
on the bases of empirical evidences Bongaarts argues that most of the
variation in fertility levels is attributed to the differential impact
of four factors; namely marriage, contraceptive use, lactational
infecundability, and induced abortion [Bongaarts (1978)].
Publisher
Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE)
Subject
Development,Geography, Planning and Development
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