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Association between the financial security of women and modern contraceptive use in rural Maharashtra, India.

Battala Madhusudana, Population Council, India
Shahina Begum, RD Gardi Medical College
Anvita Dixit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa
Sarah Averbach, Center on Gender Equity and Health, UC San Diego
Nicole Johns, Center on Gender Equity and Health, UC San Diego
Mohan Ghule, National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health (NIRRH) (ICMR)
Niranjan Saggurti, Population Council
Anita Raj, University of California, San Diego

Contraceptive use often influenced by socioeconomic factors. One of the crucial factors in the prediction of family planning outcome is the financial security of women. With improvement of women's economic security, control over family planning use may increase. The data collected from young married couples in the CHARM2 study were those in which the wife was aged 18-29 years (N=1,201 couples). The current analyses was restricted to those in women WHO did not self-report pregnancy and for which all survey data were available (n=1002). Women with high financial security are more likely to use contraception than women having low financial security (OR=1.16, 95%CI; 1.23, 2.25). Women having high financial security are 1.5 times more likely to use contraception (AOR: 1.52, 95% CI: 1.10, 2.08). Classification and regression tree analysis of modern contraceptive use and financial security variables have yielded three key nodes; women who has own money that can be decided on her own to use, women who does not have own money and having savings account on their name and women who does not have own money, not having savings account but having membership in SHG.

Keywords: Family planning and contraception

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  Presented in Session P21.