Religious Based Reproductive Status: A Case o...

Religious Based Reproductive Status: A Case of Some Selected Villages of Nabagram block in Murshidabad District, West Bengal

Author Name : Wasef Ahmed

ABSTRACT: The affinity between major community group and generative behaviour, emerged on primary data by sample surveying has been analysed. The outcome reflect that community has a most important effect on generative behaviour of some randomly selected villages of Nabagram block, of the two chief religious group studied, Muslims were identified to have the maximum child's birth rate than the Hindus. For that fertility ratio was so high reproductive rate was maximum in Muslim community of people, it may me for the cause of religious practice, lack of modernization, unavailability of educational practice, economic backwardness etc. These all variables show that the study area faced fully under developed region or backward class. In the Hindu community of people this reproductive rate or fertility ratio was comparatively low than Muslim in such region. It may be for the modernization or consciousness about the panic of high fertility rate among Hindu community than Muslim. Wrought the study was fully dependent upon primary activities, minimum percentage of responders were engaged in tertiary or allied activities of work, that indicated economic backwardness. For this study area we used some statistical techniques like Pearson's Correlation, Percentage and Frequency etc.