Volume : 4, Issue : 7, July - 2015

A STUDY ON STATUS OF WOMEN EDUCATION AND FERTILITY RATE IN WEST BENGAL

Ratula Mukherjee

Abstract :

<p>The study focuses on the present scenario of Total Fertility Rate (TFR) vis-&agrave;-vis women education in West Bengal. Education has developed a consciousness among women that was found implicated in taking the modern birth control measures and thus decreasing the TFR gradually. It appears that the level of literacy of women gets its pace in West Bengal within this decade and the TFR is gradually decreasing both in urban and rural sector. Though the TFR of rural sector is lagging behind than that of their urban counterpart, but the trend of growth is quite appreciating. The study finds a significant correlation between the women literacy level and TFR.</p>