Disaggregated analysis of birth averted due to family planning use in India: An evidence from NFHS-4 (2015-16).

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

India contributes a major share of global unintended births. It is established that contraception plays a significant role in preventing unintended pregnancies, maternal mortality and induced abortion. In this study, to analyze the effectiveness of our family welfare program, we tried to give district-level estimates of number of births averted due to contraception.

Data and methods

Data for this study came from the cross-sectional, population-based data from the fourth round of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) conducted in 2015-16. Here, we discussed two methods based on robust regression for computing number of births averted at district level. Further, we analyzed the percentage increase in births (PIB) that would be experienced by each dist

SUBMITTER: Srivastava U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7511029 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature