Understanding Unmet Need for Family Planning through Background Characteristics of Women: Evidence from National Family Health Survey and District level Health Survey

Manoranjan Mohapatra

Journal of Studies in Dynamics and Change (JSDC), ISSN: 2348-7038, 2023, vol. 10, issue 2, 45-62

Abstract: The extent of unplanned pregnancy helps in understanding the amount of unmet need for family planning and fertility level. Addressing the unmet need for family planning is the priority of both population policy 2000 and SDGs. Odisha is an eastern state of India where socio-economic and demographic indicators are not good on many fronts and also complex in nature to understand but one thing is that TFR is reducing and contraceptive practices are increasing but still a significant portion of women are in the category of unmet need. In this context, it is relevant to know the unmet need groups and the background factors of women responsible for unmet need for contraception using logistic regression with the help of the NFHS and DLHS. The study found that the trend is declining but tribes and Muslims have more unmet need and economic condition and demographic factors like age and living children of women play an important role in deciding contraceptive practices but education level and mass media exposure of women have no significant role in using methods. Besides, variations in results are observed between data sets and also different geographical locations. However, after understanding the variations in results, the focus should be on individuals rather than groups in line with SDG.

Keywords: Fertility; Contraceptive practices; Unmet need for family planning; Unplanned pregnancy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://jsdconline.com/journal/jsdc/index.php/home/article/view/94/63 (application/pdf)
https://jsdconline.com/journal/jsdc/index.php/home/article/view/94 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sdc:journl:v:10:y:2023:i:2:p:45-62

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Studies in Dynamics and Change (JSDC), ISSN: 2348-7038 is currently edited by Prof. Ranju Hasini Sahoo (Editor-in-Chief), Dr. Siba Sankar Mohanty (Managing Editor)

More articles in Journal of Studies in Dynamics and Change (JSDC), ISSN: 2348-7038 from Voices of Inclusive Change and Expressions- (VOICE) Trust, Dehradun, Uttarakhand
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sitesh Saran Nayak ().