The term nuptiality is associated with the frequency of marriages that takes place. The social impact on nuptiality is of great importance to understand the dynamics of a society. Marriage and pregnancy are important factors in the analysis of nuptiality. The study aims to recognizing self-attention practices related to pregnancy by women from rural area, as well as identifying these practices according to the different models of attention to health/birth. This paper presents the study on the difference in age of marriage and the age at first pregnancy for the overall population of rural areas of Uttarakhand for the birth cohort from 1931-40, 1941-50, 1951-60, 1961-70, 1971-80, 1981-90 and 1991-2000 within age group 17-86. This retrospective study is done for the rural areas of Uttarakhand. The data for this study is collected through the primary collection technique and the data is analysed through the comparative study in order to study the changes in the shift in ages of the birth cohort
