Fertility Transition through Four Generations and Determinants of Third Birth in Manipur

A cross sectional as well as community based study was conducted taking 1296 currently married women through cluster sampling scheme in the rural areas of four valley districts of Manipur. The fertility of generation-4 that is 3.59 is transited from the generation-1 (4.78), generation-2 (4.83), and generation-3 (5.69). Utilizing multiple and logistic regression models, the determinants of completed fertility of the last generation-4 are detected to be age at marriage (P