Factors involved with age at first marriage and actual number of children: a study on a climate change vulnerable population in Bangladesh

The study tries to explore how age at first marriage and actual number of children are influenced by socio-economic factors and contraceptive use and discussion with family planning workers. The study included 134 married male and female respondents and used multiple regression analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis for justifying hypotheses. Findings of the study show that female got married and give birth of their first child at their early age (below 18 years). And people who had very low years of schooling have high preference to have more children and they get married at their very early age. However actual high actual number of children and low age at first marriage is found for Muslim people compared with Hindu people. And people who ever used contraception and did not use contraception at current and did not discuss with the health workers were married below 18 years, very low level of education and more than four actual numbers of children. That indicates that people’s fertility behavior in vulnerable area for climate change will have significant influences on delaying population stabilization and adding more populations at national level.