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Contraceptive Influencers in India: A household level study, NFHS, 2015-16

Anjali Bansal, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)
Laxmi Kant Dwivedi, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

Contraceptive behaviour of peers are mostly inter-dependent, where both influences each’s others contraception decision. The study attempts to examine the influence of one older or peer daughter-in-law on the contraceptive behaviour of younger daughter-in-law residing in the same household. The data from the fourth round of the National Family Health Survey was used for the analysis. A sample of 1,22,474 currently married daughter-in laws was included in the analysis. Bivariate and logistic regression analysis was used to examine the effect of various factors influencing contraceptive use among women. The bivariate analysis shows that 47% of the index women use contraceptives when peer was found using it, and 42% were using if the other women was using contraception within the household. From the multivariate analysis, it was found that a index woman was 2.92 times (95% CI- 2.59-3.29) more likely to use contraceptives if at least one other women use contraceptives. Also, the odds of index women's contraception use increased to two manifold times if the peer women in the household use contraceptives. This suggests an intra-household clustering of contraceptives use among currently daughters-in-law in India. This calls for a need to promote intrahousehold family planning communication through community level workers.

Keywords: Family planning and contraception

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  Presented in Session 57. Key Factors Influencing Family Planning and Maternal Health Services in India