Determinants of Fertility Preference in Bihar: An Analysis from National Family Health Survey

In order to obtain information on fertility preference, National Family Health Survey (NFHS) asked from non-sterilized, currently married, non-pregnant women: ‘would you like to have (a/another) child or would you prefer not to have any (more) children? These questions hide a lot of complexities within it, because it is not the woman who replied to this question but the surrounding system and environments force them to take the decision. Surrounding system consists of components from social, economic, cultural and political and so on system. As it has been seen from the historical past of women’s development , that as women body become liberated in the society, their preferences or reproduction of children declines.