Davis & Blake Framework: Identifying Intercourse Variables
The Davis and Blake framework categorizes intermediate variables influencing fertility. These are grouped into:
- Intercourse variables: Factors affecting the frequency or opportunity for sexual intercourse.
- Conception variables: Factors affecting the probability of conception given intercourse.
- Gestation variables: Factors affecting the probability of carrying a pregnancy to term.
Analyzing the Options
We need to identify the option that does *not* relate to the frequency or opportunity for sexual intercourse.
- Option 1: Age of entry into sexual union. This directly determines the period a person is potentially sexually active, influencing intercourse opportunities. It is an intercourse variable.
- Option 2: Permanent Celibacy: Proportion of women never entering sexual union. This defines a group abstaining from sexual union altogether, directly related to the absence of intercourse. It is an intercourse variable.
- Option 3: When unions are broken by divorce, separation or desertion. The dissolution or disruption of a union directly impacts the continuation of sexual intercourse. It is an intercourse variable.
- Option 4: Foetal mortality from involuntary causes. This refers to pregnancy loss (miscarriage/stillbirth) occurring after conception has already happened. It is a factor affecting gestation, not the opportunity or frequency of intercourse itself. Therefore, it is not an intercourse variable.
Conclusion
Based on the analysis, 'Foetal mortality from involuntary causes' is the factor that does not fall under the category of 'Intercourse variables' in the Davis and Blake framework.
Important Questions from Other Dimensions
Which of the following statements is correct regarding Tebhaga Movement?
1. This movement was organized by the Kisan Sabha.
2. It was against Jotedars and moneylenders
3. It was led by Swami Sadanand
In 1937 in the Daundi-Lohara Zamindari there was a peasant movement, in which the peasants observed Satyagraha under the leadership of who of the following?
In which of the following countries did the concept of Public Interest Litigation originate?
Who wrote the following comments regarding social change in the nineteenth century?
"All progress in social liberation tends to be a change from the law of status to the law of contract, from the restraints of family and caste, customs to the self-imposed restraints of the free will of the individual"
What is formal Education? Choose the correct alternative given below.
(a) In teaching methodology, the classroom teaching method and direct presence of teacher to teach is important.
(b) The curriculum is pre-decided.
(c) The curriculum is prepared as per need.
(d) There are different levels. The access to the next level of education is not possible without completion of the prior level of education.
