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Interdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary Research in Business

By: Lord David K

The present study is an attempt to explore the role of Index of gender preference (IGP) and contraceptive practice in rural south India. The total sample consists of households are 745 of which 398 are schedule tribal and 347 are non-tribal women. Contraceptive use is either to stop or to limit further additions in their families. Hence the emphasis of construction of the new index is to obtain separately the strengths of size preference among couples, in the absence of either son or daughter preferences or then taking the difference as the effect of gender preferenc...