出版社：The Editorial Team of Research and Practice in Social Sciences
摘要：Central India (Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh) is one of the most populous regions of India and about 23 percent of its population is tribal (Census 2001). It is an economically and demographically backward region - the per-capita income and literacy rate is far lower as compared to other regions of the country. The utilization of Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) services are comparatively low among scheduled tribes (ST) of this region. The paper provides a comprehensive contraceptive use status among ST of Central India. An attempt is also made to know how far scheduled tribes differ from non-tribes using District Level Health Survey (DLHS-RCH II, 2002-04) round II data. The knowledge of family planning method is almost universal and most of the tribal women are aware of at least one modern method. However, only 42 percent of them were using family planning methods as compared to 58 percent non-tribal women. Out of 42 percent current users of family planning methods, 32.7 percent were using female sterilization and 1.8 percent male sterilization. This shows that about 82 percent of current users in tribal population were sterilization users only. Bi-variate results show that use of sterilization increases with age of women, marital duration, female literacy, and number of surviving male child.
