Age at menarche among the Rajbanshi of northern Bengal is studied using data on 167 women collected in 1991. Results show mean age at menarche to be 14.7 years and declining.
"In this paper a numerical method has been developed to project the total population of a geographical region. The method has been applied to the Indian situation. It is found that the total population of India was expected to lie between [836 million and 850 million in 1991 and between 986 million and 1,042 million] in 2001."
"Acceptance of induced abortion as a device of family planning among the Pati Rabha of Boko area [India] was studied. Out of 345 couples, practising various family planning devices, 86 (24.93%) accepted induced abortion. Of the total 629 conceptions of these 86 women, 137 (21.78%) conceptions were terminated by induced abortion.... The highest percentage (18.24%) of the induced abortion was done at the 6th order of pregnancy, 62.79% of the women accepted the induced abortion only once in their reproductive period. Most (91.86%) of the acceptors were illiterate and all of them were house wives." Consideration is given to the use of traditional methods of inducing abortions.
"The present paper is aimed at investigating the ethnic differentials in respect of the effects of different socio-economic and demographic characteristics upon fertility among four major ethnic groups of people [in the Barpeta district of Assam, India]."
