Open AccessFAMILY PLANNING SERVICES
Author(s) -
Rabia Arshed Usmani,
Shaheena Manzoor
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2006.13.04.4929
Subject(s) - medicine , family income , family planning , demography , descriptive research , cross sectional study , socioeconomics , environmental health , population , research methodology , economic growth , social science , pathology , sociology , economics
Objective: To identify the role of some socio-economic factors on the utilization of Family Planningservices. Design: Cross-sectional, descriptive study. Place & Duration of Study: A defined urban community ofDistrict Lahore, - from February 2004 to May 2004. Materials & Methods: 375 reproductive age married womenresiding with their husband were interviewed with the help of a semi structured data collection instrument. Results:The study showed that contraceptive use was 45.6% amongst the illiterates; it rose to 61.3% for the respondents witheducation up to matric and 71.3% in those with education above matric. It was 43.2% in respondents belonging tofamilies with income less than Rs.3000; and 68.6% with income level of Rs.6000+. It was also found that contraceptiveuse amongst working women was 82.8%, whereas 54.3% housewives were using contraception. Conclusion: Thestudy was able to establish positive influence of some important socio-economic factors on the utilization of familyplanning services.