| Title: | Contraceprive Practice and its Impact on Birth Rates of Maharashtra |
| Authors: | Kumudini Dandekar and Vaijayanti Bhate |
| Publication: | Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics / Indian Statistical Institute |
| Enumeration: | Volume 40, Series B, Pt. 3, 4, pp. 244--271 |
| Abstract: | SUMMARY. (1) The data on births, deaths and especially infant deaths not being reliable, the criterion of consistency alone helps our judgement in estimating the vital rates, (2) the documentation regarding conception through sterilization in Maharashtra is fairly reliable and that also strengthens our confidence in vital estimates based on them. (3) The close examination of vital estimates revealed more than fifteen to twenty per cent under enumeration in the birth rate of Maharashtra of the Sample Registration Scheme (SRS). (4) Twentyfive percent couple protection with sterilization in Maharashtra resulted in only fifteen percent decline in birth rate. This ratio of 5 per cent protection resulting in 3 percent decline is expected to change in future, i.e. to decrease in future when the age at sterilization comes down. (5)Average current sterilization prevents 1.9 births in future if allowance is made for sterilized couples going out of wedlock. (6)The lower limit of birth in Maharashtra is about 36 births or so per thousand population in 1975. (7)Infant mortality rate cannot be easily estimated. However our hunch is that it was 160 deaths per thousand live births in Maharashtra in 1970-71 or 130 deaths in 1976. These estimates clash with our ideas regarding death rates. But they satisfy the criterion of consistency with other demographic indices.
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