Changing Trends in the Demographic Profile and Attitudes of Female Sterilization Acceptors

Abstract

Sterilization is one of the most popular and widely used methods of contraception in the world today. The family welfare program of the Government of India has relied heavily on sterilization as a birth control method. It is estimated that in India, about 30 per cent of all eligible couples seek family limitation by permanent methods.

Since 1971, family welfare services at the Lady Hardinge Medical College and Smt. Sucheta Kriplani Hospital in
New Delhi are being provided under the All India Post-partum Program. This study was undertaken to see whether there are my changes in the demographic features and attitudes of female sterilization acceptors over a decade that is, between 1981-82 and 1991-92,and if so, whether these changes could help policy makers to improve the services.