Unwanted Family Planning Including Unwanted Sterilization: Preliminary Prevalence Estimates for India.

ABSTRACT: Estimates of unwanted family planning (UFP), which are based on a desire to have a child in the next nine months among current contraceptive users, exclude women who are sterilized since these women are not asked about their fertility preferences; all sterilized women are assumed to have a "met need" for family planning. However, the India National Family Health Survey asks sterilized women if they regret being sterilized and whether they were told that the operation would result in their permanent inability to have children. We extend the concept of UFP by classifying sterilized women who express regret or who were not informed about the procedure's permanence, as having UFP. When limiting our analysis of UFP to nonsterilized contraceptive users, we find that 0.9 percent of Indian women h

SUBMITTER: Karra M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11636777 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature