Planning for work: Exploring the relationship between contraceptive use and women's sector-specific employment in India.

ABSTRACT: While the health-related benefits of contraceptive use for women are well documented, potential social benefits, including enabling women's employment, have not been well researched. We examine the relationship between contraceptive use and women's employment in India, a country where both factors have remained relatively static over the past ten years. We use data from India's 2015-16 National Family Health Survey to test the association between current contraceptive use (none, sterilization, IUD, condom, pill, rhythm method or withdrawal) and current employment status (none, professional, clerical or sales, agricultural, services or production) with multivariable, multinomial regression; variable selection was guided by a directed acyclic graph. More than three-quarters of women in this

SUBMITTER: McDougal L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7951869 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature