Reproductive Profile: Women Bidi Workers of District Sagar of MP

For the present investigation, cross sectional data on different aspects of fertility was collected from 119 households of district Sagar of Madhya Pradesh. A semi structure schedule was used to collect information on age, sex, age at first birth, total number of live births, number of children died, number of surviving children, pregnancy experienced by mothers and reproductive wastage etc. It was found that 499 pregnancies were experienced by 112 mothers, out of which 4525 were total live birth, 68 were child loss and 47 were fetal loss. By using these variable, fertility was estimated, and rates and ratio such as Child women ratio, Crude birth rate, General fertility rate, Age specific fertility rate, General marital fertility rate, Gross reproduction rate, Total fertility rate etc. were calculated. Among bidi workers, the mean age of mother at first birth was found to be 21.31±12.5 years. The crude birth rate (CBR) was found to be 24.6. Total fertility rate was 5.5, which is quite higher as compared to vital rate of Madhya Pradesh and Nation, whereas General fertility rate was 100 and General marital fertility rate was 138.2. The Gross reproduction rate was 2.69, whereas the highest ASFR was found to be 400 among mothers belonging to age group of 15-19 years. It was concluded that the studied population have higher fertility rate and requires further investigation to find out the reason behind it.