Pattern of transition in reproductive timing of females after a long year gap in Orissa

Differential patterns of transitions between births in a population describe the dynamics of family building and signify varying impacts of social change on population growth. In the present paper, an attempt has been made to analyze the changing patterns of reproductive timing of females of Orissa (one of the 29 states of India) in the last over two decades (between 1981-82 and 2005-06). Life table estimates of female’s age at the time of childbirth of specific order in two different time periods (being more than two decades apart) are compared for some subgroups of the study population. The results show that there is a change in the reproductive timing of females with time and the socio-demographic variables works differently with respect to time.