Attitude towards small family and population education in Jorhat district

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Poppy Gogoi and Sampreety Gogoi (Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat, Assam

The process of procreation is a way of beginning a new life which needsto be maintained to prevent extinction of
mankind. Even though India is the first country to launch a National family planning programme in 1952 but
population explosion is still a major problem in the country. The study was conducted to assess the attitude of
people towards having small family and importance of population education and to assess if any difference exist
between the attitude of rural and urban people regarding having small family and importance of population
education. The sample consisted of 100 married couples from urban and rural areas. From the total sample of
100, 50 respondent from rural areas and 50 respondents from urban areas were selected randomly. Data were
collected by using a standardized tool “Attitude Scale towards Small Family and Population Education”
prepared by (Sodhi & Sharma, 2011). The result revealed that all the people had positive attitude towards having
small family and importance of population education and there was no difference between the attitude of rural
and urban people regarding having small family and importance of population education which is significant at
0.05% level ofsignificance.