DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2014.v02i04.007

Pages: 1206-1209

The rise in single child families in developing nations is considered as a new trend in population. The prevalence study for single child in Puducherry has been done as a cross sectional study involving engineering students. Along with prevalence, which was found to be 9.3, associated factors that determine single child prevalence in society were analyzed. The factors emerged important among them were parents’ education, especially females’ education and mothers working status. Other factors like type of family (joint family and nuclear family) and area of resident (rural and urban) were not significantly associated with the prevalence of single child in the society.