Abstract
Sex-Preference For Children and Fertility Behaviour in Mid-Level Civil Servants of Bangladesh
Highlights
Bangladesh ranks as the World's eighth and Asia's fifth most populous country with a high density of population in the world -more than 800 people per square kilometer
The main objective of this study is to find out the nature and the extent of sex- preference prevailing in the mid-level civil servants in the country
When the respondents who regard their family size to be less than expected family size were asked to opine about the sex-seleclivily of the additional child, it is observed that 45.5% were reluctant about the sex of the additional child
Summary
Bangladesh ranks as the World's eighth and Asia's fifth most populous country with a high density of population in the world -more than 800 people per square kilometer. Since independence it has been trying hard to restrain the population growth. It has been remarkably successful in reducing population growth to the level of 1.8 percent annually. Total Fertility Rate (TFR) has fallen from 6.8 in 1975 to 3.1 in 1997. The Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) has increased from 9% in 1975 to 45% in 1993 and 52% in 1999. Along with this success story, there still remains some shortfalls in the mortality area.
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