About the Book
Since 2005, with the launch of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and various other developmental programmes, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have shown perceptible progress in some of the crucial demographic and health indicators. However, there remain challenges and areas of concern pertaining to population growth, health outcomes, gender inequality, unmet needs, and nutrition among children. Uttar Pradesh and Bihar together contribute maximum to the total births, unmet needs, and people below poverty line in the country. The book covers a wide range of issues on the interface between population and development in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. By using the data from Census, NFHS, DLHS, NSSO and other sources, the present volume highlights the recent scenario and emerging challenges. This book will be a very useful reference material not only for researchers but also for policymakers.
CONTRIBUTORS
P.M. Kulkarni
D.A. Nagdeve
Ravi B.P. Verma
Priya Bhakat
Shewli Shabnam
Rati Parihar
B. Paswan
Akash Wankhede
Pravat Kumar Sarangi
Rajesh Raushan
Mukesh Ravi Raushan
Shanti Bhushan Kumari
H. Lhungdim
N. Jayenta Meitei
Ruchi Singh
D.P. Singh
Vijay Vir Singh
Shalini I. Meshram
Abdul Jaleel CP
M.R. Singariya
Ankita Siddhanta
S.K. Singh
Contents
1. Why are Uttar Pradesh and Bihar Lagging in Fertility Transition? / P.M. Kulkarni
2. Fertility Transition in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh / D.A. Nagdeve
3. Fertility Transition in Empowered Action Group States / Ravi B.P. Verma
4. Marriage and Age at First Birth among Women in EAG States of India / Priya Bhakat
5. Factors Affecting Induced Abortion in India and Uttar Pradesh: Findings from DLHS–3 / Shewli Shabnam
6. Family Planning Use and Unmet Need among Scheduled and Non-Scheduled Population in Bihar: Empirical Evidence from DLHS–3 / Rati Parihar, B. Paswan and Akash Wankhede
7. Adolescent Fertility Behaviour in Bihar: Evidence from NFHS–3 Data / P.K. Sarangi
8. Demographic Outcomes and RCH Services Utilization in Bihar: Where is the Gap? / Rajesh Raushan, Mukesh Ravi Raushan and Shanti Bhushan Kumari
9. Children Undernutrition Status in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh: Estimates using Svedberg’s Composite
Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF) Method / H. Lhungdim
10. Issues of Out-migration from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar / N. Jayenta Meitei
11. Socio-Economic Analysis of Migrant Workers in Mumbai: A Case Study of Auto-rickshaw and
Taxi Drivers from Uttar Pradesh / Ruchi Singh
12. Migration in Empowered Action Group States: Some New Facts / D.P. Singh
13. The Growth Story of Bihar: Some Concerns / Vijay Vir Singh
14. Assessing the Effect of Household Environment on Child Health in Uttar Pradesh / Shalini I. Meshram, Abdul Jaleel CP and B. Paswan
15. Population, Structural Changes and Economic Growth in India / M.R. Singariya
16. Macro and Micro Perspective on Perception and Gender
Gap Towards the Bodily Rights of Women in India / Ankita Siddhanta and S.K. Singh
About the Author / Editor
Harihar Sahoo is Assistant Professor, Department of Development Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai. His research interests are fertility, family planning, reproductive and child health, population and development. He has published in national and international journals and edited volumes.
F. Ram is currently Director and Senior Professor, IIPS, Mumbai. He specializes in indirect estimation of fertility and mortality, evaluation of family planning and large sample surveys. He has a long list of research papers published in national and international journals. He was also the President of Indian Association for the Study of Population.
B. Paswan is Professor and Head, Department of Population Policies and Programmes and In-charge, Department of Extra Mural Studies and Distance Education at International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai. His academic interests lie in the field of population policies and programmes and reproductive and child health.
H. Lhungdim is Professor, Department of Public Health and Mortality Studies at IIPS, Mumbai. He has received training in demography at the Cairo Demographic Centre, Egypt; East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii; Centre for Population Studies, LSH&TM, London; and The B&M Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, JH Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
Dipti Govil is Assistant Professor, Department of Population Policies and Programmes, IIPS Mumbai. Her research focuses on health policy, middle age, aging, abortion, child health, health economics, health system and quality of care.
