Determinants of demographic characteristics of the Lamkang tribe, Manipur

The present study provides the demographic account of the Lamkang tribe of Manipur who suffered the bottleneck effect in 1840s and 1992. The objectives are: (i) to determine the age-sex composition of the Lamkang, (ii) to see the sex disparity among the Lamkang (iii) to examine the various biological and social factors that govern the fertility pattern among the Lamkang tribe of Manipur. The present study reveals that the Lamkang population is showing tendency towards fertility transition as evident from the population pyramid. This has shown the beginning of positive effects of education and employment on the reduction of fertility. Overall, males have a higher literacy and better occupation than their female counterparts. One-way analysis of variance reveals that the mean number of conceptions and mean number of live births show statistically significant differences with respect to women's education and family type, which is also reaffirmed by correlation analysis indicating that factors such as family type and women's education along with the other factors such as age at marriage, age at first conception, age at menarche show significant association with fertility.