title: Social and demographic characteristics influencing adoption of female sterilisation.
abstract: This paper analyzes the relationship between the adoption of female sterilization and 3 social and modernization variables (education, income, and family type) and 2 demographic variables (number of living children and years of marriage) for a sample of 200.  The influence of each of these 5 variables on female sterilization is studied by the percentage distribution method and the variance test.  The data are analyzed by using the urban-rural and adopter-nonadopter classification.  Results show that the social and modernization variables do not seem to influence the adoption of female sterilization among urban or rural households, but the demographic variables--number of living children and years of marriage--do seem to have a clear influence.  Among rural households there are differences in these variables between adopters and nonadopters of female sterilization.  There is a policy implication here:  the government has to advocate the 2 child norm to all eligible couples in the early years of marriage and advise them to adopt sterilization after the birth of the 2nd child.  This will go a long way in achieving the national target of the replacement level of reproduction by the year 2000.
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D003906:Developing Countries; D004522:Educational Status; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005193:Family Planning Services; D006285:Health Planning; D007182:Income; D007194:India; D008393:Marriage; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D011154:Population Characteristics; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013245:Sterilization, Reproductive
keywords: Acceptors; Asia; Developing Countries; Educational Status; Family Characteristics; Family Planning; Family Planning Programs; Family Size; Female Sterilization; Income; India; Marriage; Marriage Duration; Nonacceptors; Population Characteristics; Socioeconomic Factors; Southern Asia; Sterilization Seekers--women; Sterilization, Sexual