| Unmet Need of Contraception in India’s Demographically Backward EAG
States |
| Authors: |
S.C. Gulati, and Ayusmati Das |
| Source: |
Demography India, 48(2): 1-17 |
| Topic(s): |
Contraception
Unmet need
Women’s empowerment
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| Country: |
Asia
India
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| Published: |
JUL 2019 |
| Abstract: |
Abstract: Unmet need for contraception is substantially high in the 8 empowered action
group (EAG) states of India viz. Bihar, Uttar-Pradesh, Madhya-Pradesh, Rajasthan,
Orissa, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand and Chattisgarh; comprising of 45.9% of India’s
population as of 2011 census. Data on battery of socioeconomic, demographic and
program factors affecting demand for contraception have been drawn from the fourth
National Family Health Survey, 2015-16. The primary data pertain to 19,248 currently
married and fecund women aged 15-49 years in the EAG states. The Multinomial Logit
Regression analysis has elicited relative significance and directions of effects of the
selected socioeconomic and demographic variables on the four components of demand
for contraception Multiple classification analysis suggests that strengthening of IEC
component on family planning need to be prioritized, misapprehensions on side effects
and health risks of contraception, alleviation of son-preference in the Indian society,
improvement in girls school enrolment and women’s education, women’s gainful
employment, mandatory implementation of legal age at marriage, reduction in infant and
child mortality, involvement of village level health functionaries.
Keywords: Unmet Need, Contraception, Spacing Births, Limiting Births, Women’s
Empowerment. |
| Web: |
http://demographyindia.in/article_document/100/673301_26_S_C.pdf |
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