Open AccessFertility and family planning in India and Kenya
Author(s) -
Riikka Raitis,
Riitta Saarinen
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
finnish yearbook of population research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1796-6191
pISSN - 1796-6183
DOI - 10.23979/fypr.44863
Subject(s) - fertility , slum , geography , socioeconomics , family planning , population , population pressure , agriculture , developing country , demography , population growth , economic growth , sociology , research methodology , economics , archaeology
This article compares the fertility pattern and the attitudes towards family planning in two culturally and geographically different societies, the growing slum area in Calcutta, India and Taita-Taveta, an agricultural area under high population pressure in Kenya. The studies are partly demographic and partly based on in-depth interviews.