ABSTRACT Various family planning programmes have recognised the importance of family planning in ... more ABSTRACT Various family planning programmes have recognised the importance of family planning in the first year postpartum. Contraception plays a critical role for women in the postpartum period in preventing unwanted pregnancy and reducing the risk of infant and maternal mortality by lengthening the subsequent birth intervals. In the present study, an attempt has been made to explore the level and patterns of contraceptive use and associated factors affecting the use of contraception during the first 12-month-postpartum period among Indian women. A comparison regarding postpartum contraceptive use between rural and urban women of India clearly shows that rural women are still lagging behind urban women with regard to awareness about postpartum contraceptive use within one year of childbirth. Education as well as economic status, amenorrheic and abstinence status, postpartum duration and media exposure were found to be the important factors affecting postpartum contraceptive use among Indian women.
Various family planning programmes have recognised the importance of family planning in the first... more Various family planning programmes have recognised the importance of family planning in the first year postpartum. Contraception plays a critical role for women in the postpartum period in preventing unwanted pregnancy and reducing the risk of infant and maternal mortality by lengthening the subsequent birth intervals. In the present study, an attempt has been made to explore the level and patterns of contraceptive use and associated factors affecting the use of contraception during the first 12-month-postpartum period among Indian women. A comparison regarding postpartum contraceptive use between rural and urban women of India clearly shows that rural women are still lagging behind urban women with regard to awareness about postpartum contraceptive use within one year of childbirth. Education as well as economic status, amenorrheic and abstinence status, postpartum duration and media exposure were found to be the important factors affecting postpartum contraceptive use among Indian women.
Several studies have assumed that fecundability of female is constant over time except the early ... more Several studies have assumed that fecundability of female is constant over time except the early reproductive ages i.e., <=15 years. In this paper, an attempt has been made to test this hypothesis since in spite of being a biological factor, fecundability is also governed by a large number of socio-demographic and cultural factors associated with it. In the present study, fecundability is estimated for India as well as different major states of the country in different age-groups of the females using the data of their last closed birth interval. The relevant data are compiled fro m the Nat ional Family Health Survey III. Life table technique is used to estimate age specific fecundability to statistically grip the problem of censoring and selectivity. The results show that fecundability decreases with increasing age of the females. But, fro m this it cannot be inferred that age is the only factor responsible for variat ion in fecundability. This may be due to some socio-cultural factors which influence the behavioural factor, coital frequency. This study suggests that the variation in fecundability among the Indian females is due to the confounded effect of age and some socio-cultural factors associated with coital frequency and the effect of these two cannot be separated.
ABSTRACT Various family planning programmes have recognised the importance of family planning in ... more ABSTRACT Various family planning programmes have recognised the importance of family planning in the first year postpartum. Contraception plays a critical role for women in the postpartum period in preventing unwanted pregnancy and reducing the risk of infant and maternal mortality by lengthening the subsequent birth intervals. In the present study, an attempt has been made to explore the level and patterns of contraceptive use and associated factors affecting the use of contraception during the first 12-month-postpartum period among Indian women. A comparison regarding postpartum contraceptive use between rural and urban women of India clearly shows that rural women are still lagging behind urban women with regard to awareness about postpartum contraceptive use within one year of childbirth. Education as well as economic status, amenorrheic and abstinence status, postpartum duration and media exposure were found to be the important factors affecting postpartum contraceptive use among Indian women.
Various family planning programmes have recognised the importance of family planning in the first... more Various family planning programmes have recognised the importance of family planning in the first year postpartum. Contraception plays a critical role for women in the postpartum period in preventing unwanted pregnancy and reducing the risk of infant and maternal mortality by lengthening the subsequent birth intervals. In the present study, an attempt has been made to explore the level and patterns of contraceptive use and associated factors affecting the use of contraception during the first 12-month-postpartum period among Indian women. A comparison regarding postpartum contraceptive use between rural and urban women of India clearly shows that rural women are still lagging behind urban women with regard to awareness about postpartum contraceptive use within one year of childbirth. Education as well as economic status, amenorrheic and abstinence status, postpartum duration and media exposure were found to be the important factors affecting postpartum contraceptive use among Indian women.
Several studies have assumed that fecundability of female is constant over time except the early ... more Several studies have assumed that fecundability of female is constant over time except the early reproductive ages i.e., <=15 years. In this paper, an attempt has been made to test this hypothesis since in spite of being a biological factor, fecundability is also governed by a large number of socio-demographic and cultural factors associated with it. In the present study, fecundability is estimated for India as well as different major states of the country in different age-groups of the females using the data of their last closed birth interval. The relevant data are compiled fro m the Nat ional Family Health Survey III. Life table technique is used to estimate age specific fecundability to statistically grip the problem of censoring and selectivity. The results show that fecundability decreases with increasing age of the females. But, fro m this it cannot be inferred that age is the only factor responsible for variat ion in fecundability. This may be due to some socio-cultural factors which influence the behavioural factor, coital frequency. This study suggests that the variation in fecundability among the Indian females is due to the confounded effect of age and some socio-cultural factors associated with coital frequency and the effect of these two cannot be separated.
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