Contraceptive Use in India: A Data Mining Approach

Table 4

Prevalence of contraception in different groups of women.

Group number	Surviving children	Religion	Household standard of living	Number of years of schooling of women	Residence	Prevalence (percent)				𝑁
						All methods	Terminal methods	Modern spacing methods	Traditional methods	Number	%
All	All	All	All	All	All	58.34	39.64	11.39	7.31	555665	100.0
6	0	All	All	All	All	8.20	0.72	4.20	3.28	47175	8.5
11	1	All	Very low, low, average	All	All	24.65	6.65	9.81	8.19	40007	7.2
17	1	All	High	All	All	39.23	6.84	20.80	11.60	18220	3.3
23	1	All	Very high	≤12	All	48.86	6.45	30.40	12.01	16670	3.0
24	1	All	Very high	>12	All	58.63	3.19	41.52	13.92	7580	1.4
22	≥2	Hindu	Lowest	All	All	55.39	44.11	4.48	6.80	58595	10.5
21	≥2	Hindu	Low	All	All	64.14	52.51	5.21	6.42	65569	11.8
7	≥2	Muslim	Lowest, low	All	All	40.47	15.87	11.93	12.67	14793	2.7
13	≥2	Muslim	Average, high, very high	0	All	52.50	27.50	14.60	10.40	16320	2.9
19	≥2	Muslim	Average, high, very high	>0	Rural	61.45	30.49	17.66	13.30	9251	1.7
20	≥2	Muslim	Average, high, very high	>0	Urban	67.60	37.04	22.93	7.64	8893	1.6
15	≥2	Others	Lowest, low	All	All	46.57	28.42	8.87	9.27	12827	2.3
10	≥2	Hindu, others	Average, high, very high	All	All	76.73	57.48	12.67	6.58	239765	43.1