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Jaina Community-A Social Survey
10,000 persons of each sex in the Jaina community in the Bombay Presidency from *1881–1931.29
6. FERTILITY AND LONGEVITY OF THE JAINAS
As an indication of comparative fertility, the proportion borne by children of 0-10 years' age-group to married females of 15-40 years age-group can be examined. Such figures for different religious communities were available upto 1931 Census Report. The figures for some communities, as stated in 1931 Census Report, 30 are given in Table 19.
Table 19
Community
Number of children aged 0-10
Number of , married women aged 15-40
No. of children aged 0-10 to
each married woman aged 15-40
Tribal Christian Sikh Muslim Jaina Hindu Parsi
24,43,237 17,60,983 11,94,247 2,29,72,076 . 3,19,953. 6,61,77,624
19,404
12,47,270 9,08,570
6,21,095 1,28,70,165
1,95,063 4,03,78,332
12,142
1.96 1.94 1.92 1.78 1.64 1.64 1.60
Even though the fertility of Jaina women was low as compared with that of Christian, Sikh and Muslim women, it did show some signs of improvement as seen from Table 2031 given below :
Table 20
Year
Number of
children aged 0-10
Number of married women aged 15-40
No. of children aged 0-10 to each married woman aged 15-40
1931 1921 1911
3,19,953 2,79,748 2,93,714
1,95,063 1,71,458 1,96,754
1.64 1.63 1.49
Similarly the proportion of persons aged 60 and over to those aged 15 to 40 is an indication of comparative longevity. Such figures32 for some communities according to 1931 Census are given in Table 21 in the ascending order of comparative longevity.
