TY - JOUR
T1 - Role of community and context in contraceptive behaviour in rural west bengal, India
T2 - A multilevel multinomial approach
AU - Ghosh, Saswata
AU - Siddiqui, Md Zakaria
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright 2016 Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - Summary Studies examining the influence of community-level interactions and contextual/supply-side factors in determining contraceptive choices have yielded mixed results in the context of rural India. Using small-scale survey data of 1348 women from rural West Bengal and by employing multilevel multinomial logit models, this study tested the influence of these factors after controlling for various socio-demographic and individual-level socioeconomic factors. The study reveals that supply-side intervention strategies, i.e. addressing outreach and advocacy activities and socio-religious needs at the community level, are essential prerequisites to breaking away from the predominance of sterilization in the contraceptive method-mix and enhancing the adoption of modern reversible contraceptives for improved spacing of births-a crucial factor in maternal and child health outcomes.
AB - Summary Studies examining the influence of community-level interactions and contextual/supply-side factors in determining contraceptive choices have yielded mixed results in the context of rural India. Using small-scale survey data of 1348 women from rural West Bengal and by employing multilevel multinomial logit models, this study tested the influence of these factors after controlling for various socio-demographic and individual-level socioeconomic factors. The study reveals that supply-side intervention strategies, i.e. addressing outreach and advocacy activities and socio-religious needs at the community level, are essential prerequisites to breaking away from the predominance of sterilization in the contraceptive method-mix and enhancing the adoption of modern reversible contraceptives for improved spacing of births-a crucial factor in maternal and child health outcomes.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0021932016000080
DO - 10.1017/S0021932016000080
M3 - Article
SN - 0021-9320
VL - 49
SP - 48
EP - 68
JO - Journal of Biosocial Science
JF - Journal of Biosocial Science
IS - 1
ER -