Contraceptive Use in India: A Data Mining Approach

Table 1

Prevalence of contraception in currently married, nonpregnant women aged 15–49 years in India.

Particulars	Proportion of women (percent)	Prevalence (percent)
		All methods	Terminal methods	Modern spacing methods	Traditional methods
Locality
Rural	78.0	56.4	39.6	9.5	7.2
Urban	22.1	65.3	39.6	18.0	7.6
Standard of living
Very low	16.5	43.8	31.8	5.1	6.9
Low	18.5	51.1	37.7	6.4	7.0
Average	20.4	59.3	43.4	9.0	7.0
High	21.8	64.3	44.7	12.4	7.2
Very high	22.8	68.1	38.6	21.3	8.3
Wife education
No schooling	46.7	54.7	42.6	5.9	6.2
Upper primary	30.2	61.4	42.4	11.8	7.2
Higher Secondary	18.4	61.2	32.4	19.4	9.4
College	4.9	63.7	21.2	31.6	11.0
Husband education
No schooling	24.8	53.2	41.5	5.7	6.0
Upper primary	34.2	59.1	42.9	9.4	6.8
Higher Secondary	30.9	60.0	37.5	14.4	8.1
College	10.2	63.4	31.0	22.6	9.8
Religion
Hindu	78.0	59.9	43.0	10.0	6.9
Muslim	11.3	46.7	21.0	15.1	10.6
Others	10.7	59.5	34.8	17.7	7.0
Surviving children
0	8.5	8.2	0.7	4.2	3.3
1	14.9	35.9	6.3	19.3	10.2
2	27.4	69.2	46.5	15.2	7.5
>2	36.4	62.2	47.3	7.2	7.7
Total	100.0	58.3	39.6	11.4	7.3
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