Rural-Urban Differential of Contraceptive Knowledge among Unmarried Women in India
2021
A large number of girls get marriage at very young age and
immediately are exposed to the risk of bearing children in
India. Many marriages in India are celebrated well before
the legal age has pointed out as 34 percent of the
adolescent girls aged 15-19 years. The objective of this is to
examine the rural urban differential and determinant of
knowledge of family planning methods in India. This study
utilize data obtained from third round of the District Level
Household Survey which is conducted in 2007-08 in 601
districts from 34 states and union territories of India. DLHS-
3 was conducted by the International Institute for
Population Sciences Mumbai under the stewardship of the
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
The study uses bivariate absolute difference, relative
difference and multivariate techniques to understand the
knowledge of family planning methods among unmarred
youth women living in rural as well as urban area of India.
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