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A STUDY ON ACCESS AND USAGE OF FAMILY-PLANNING METHODS

AMONG TRIBAL WOMEN OF BANKURA DISTRICT, WESTBENGAL
SUBARNA MAJI
RESEARCH SCHOLAR,

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WORK, VISVA-BHARATI UNIVERSITY,

SRINIKETAN, BIRBHUM DISTRICT, WESTBENGAL.

EMAIL: smaji96@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Socioeconomic development of India is hampered due to its high population and
high fertility rate. The situation is more miserable in case of scheduled tribe community due to
their poor awareness level associated with financial constraints. Thus in this paper the researcher
tried to assess and examine the awareness level as well as practice of family planning methods
among the tribal women of Bankura District, West Bengal.

Methodology: In this study, 358 tribal married women of reproductive age group (15 to 49 yrs)
belong to Bankura district were selected as sample through purposive sampling technique. A
semi-structured interview schedule used as a tool for data collection

Results: The Study shows that 93.51% of total respondents knew at least any one method of
family planning but only 43.85% of respondents used any contraceptives for limiting their
family. Female sterilization (48.41%) was dominant as contraceptive method among the tribal
women.

Conclusion: The study findings reveal that there is a gap between the knowledge and practices
of family planning which need further detailed research to understand the causes of these
differences to make family planning programme more acceptable to tribal community of
Bankura.

KEY WORDS: Awareness, Contraceptive, Family planning, Tribal women.

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