On Population Dynamics: The Impact of Education on Human Fertility in an Urban Population

Abstract

Fertility is considered a positive factor for growth of human population and it is affected by a number of socio economic and biological variables. In this paper, an attempt has been made to study the relationship between education level of husband and wife and fertility (number of live births per woman) from the data obtained in fertility survey of randomly selected 300 households of an urban area. To find out the relationship between education (an independent variable) and fertility (dependent variable), X2 (Chi-square) test-a statistical test was used. It was found that chi-square value is highly significant at level .01 which confirms that education level
affects the fertility in human population.