Analytical Survey of Factors that Influence the Choice of Female Sterilization among Urban and Rural Populations of India

Background: In order to promote female sterilization, health workers vigorously promoted to fulfil their targets and often misled women about other method choices. This study has analysed the average completed family size with relation to parity, average age of both partners accepting permanent contraception, the percentage of women who finished their family with only female children and comparison of practice observed in rural and urban population. Son preference and sterilization use among young married women was a frequent observation in slums of Bhopal city, India. This paper addresses how the son preference norm and family planning policy together influenced in the decisions for family size, composition in Bhopal, India