Subject(s): Population -- Family welfare -- population policies and programs : Need for reorientation of family planning- program strategies in developing countries- case of birth based approach, mass media and awareness and attitudes of students on population related issues, impact of adult education program on age at recent marriage in rural Maharashtra, role of incentives in decision making process- study of sterilization acceptors in Madhya Pradesh -- Fertility and mortality : Child bearing in Goa- age patterns and cohort changes, fertility characteristics of migrants and non migrants in greater Bombay, social amenities and infant mortality in rural India, child in India -- Development, migration and urbanization : pattern and characteristics of internal migration in India, languages as a pull factor for migration to major cities in India, rural development, urbanization and migration in Gujarat, regional dimensions of unemployment in India- analysis of 1981 census data -- Theory and estimation of demographic parameters : Some new approaches to estimating vital rates at sub national level, pace, speed and quantum of fertility- model based estimation, age patterns of mortality in India, global and regional projection of AIDS cases, some new approaches for estimating life expectation at older age, application of demographic field theory to study linkages between demographic behavior geo-socio economic system and population policies in India