title: Demography of sterilization: Indian experience.
abstract: Using program statistics and a few local studies, the paper examines the prevalence of sterilization in India and makes demographic analysis of the performance.  Major points of note are that the prevalence rates expressed in terms of currently married women showed irregular fluctuations across time and the age pattern of acceptance hardly agreed with that of the married population.  The selectivity of high fertility couples for sterilization had been fairly high, resulting in a low fertility impact.  Estimates of births averted due to the program were derived by using a computerized microsimulation model CONVERSE.  It appears that the path of fertility changes was not smooth in the last decade and the impact has been, as a rule, greatest 2 years after acceptance.
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Roy
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001208:Asia; D003906:Developing Countries; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005193:Family Planning Services; D006285:Health Planning; D006298:Health Services Administration; D006302:Health Services Research; D007194:India; D009934:Organization and Administration; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013245:Sterilization, Reproductive
keywords: Acceptor Characteristics; Acceptors; Age Factors; Asia; Births Averted; Developing Countries; Evaluation; Family Planning; Family Planning Program Evaluation; Family Planning Programs; Female Sterilization; Health Services Administration; Health Services Evaluation; India; Male Sterilization; Management; Organization And Administration; Population; Population Characteristics; Program Evaluation; Programs; Qualitative Evaluation; Southern Asia; Sterilization Seekers; Sterilization, Sexual