Abstract
Family size in any particular society depends on different socioeconomic and cultural factors. This study makes an attempt to examine the determinants of family size in the Khulna district of Bangladesh. The study was carried out in Paikgacha villages under Paikgacha Upazila and. Ward no. 31 of Khulna city under Khulna district. The study opted for survey research design and the unit of analyses was the head of households from the study area. Samples of 296 respondents were selected through simple random sampling and were interviewed with a semi-structured interview schedule. The bivariate studies were executed using chi-square to explore the probable association between family size and certain covariates. To know the marginal effects of independent variables, the OLS (Ordinary Least Square) model was measured. Results show that half of the households (54.1% to be exact) were small (had four or less than that members) in size. Besides, age, family income, educational status, number of surviving children, number of desired children, sex preferences, contraceptive use, family planning, and residence were linked with the size of the family (p<.005) as potential socioeconomic and cultural factors.
Highlights
The size of the family is a thing of great importance for the country as a whole, and for the well-being and health of the respected person, the family and the community (Arthur, 2005; Hyeladi & Alfred, 2014)
In this study revealed that most of the respondents (50.0%) were those who were married up to 18 years and only 15.2% of the respondents were married up-to the age of 24 years. the majority of the respondents (37.5%) were attained primary level of education
The results of this study present that age at first marriage for both men and women have not found to be associated with the family size determines
Summary
The size of the family is a thing of great importance for the country as a whole, and for the well-being and health of the respected person, the family and the community (Arthur, 2005; Hyeladi & Alfred, 2014). Family size is the number of family members, including children irrespective of wherever they live (Jones, 2005). The inclination of UniversePG l www.universepg.com family sizes and its tendency for a probable world population explosion can rush poor developing countries into further poverty and helpless grief, Traditional attitudes of women’s role in society make it challenging for them to contribute to population control (Arthur, 2009; Jones, 2005). Size depends on numerous factors, such as age, duration of marriage, literacy, preference of the number of children, etc (Ojha, 1999). Existing literature suggests that the continuing increase in the world population has become an urgent global problem. Most of this growth is happening in developing countries where the deterioration in the total fecundity rate is slow. The deliberate decline of the total fecundity rate may be not up to the mark because the population has not
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