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OS28: ASSOCIATION BETWEEN MODERN CONTRACEPTIVE
USE AND WOMEN’S AUTONOMY IN SOUTH INDIA

DR. T.B SINGH, JAGRITI ANNU
Centre of Bio-Statistics, Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU, VARANASI
EMAIL- jagritiannu6@gmail.com

KEY WORDS - Women’s autonomy, Contraceptive Use, NFHS-4, Family Planning, Gender Equality
BACKGROUND: Population of India will reach 1,400 million (140 crore) by 2026 (MOHFW). The best
way to control the population growth is to increase the modern contraceptive use. Contraceptive methods
have a range of benefits other than their primary purpose of pregnancy prevention. Contraception reduces
pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality, reduces the risk of developing certain reproductive cancers.
Women’s autonomy is one of the factors to increase the contraceptive use. To achieve Gender equality
and empower women, we will have to end all forms of discrimination against all women according to goal
5 of SDG.

OBJECTIVE: The objectives of this study are to find the prevalence of modern contraceptive use of
currently married women in south India and association between contraceptive use and different indices
of women’s autonomy.
METHODOLOGY: This study is based on National Family health Survey-4 (2015-2016) data Source. Total
67312 currently married women (15-49) have taken from south India. Three indices – household decision
making index, mobility decision making index and economic decision making index are constructed to
measure the different dimensions of women’s autonomy. Chi-square test, Bi-variate analysis and binary
logistic regression analysis has been used.
RESULT : This study finds that out of all currently married women 54.1% women are using modern
contraceptive in South India. 55.3%, 61.2% and 54.5% women have high autonomy in economic decision
making, household decision making and mobility decision making respectively. Contraceptive use is
positively associated with women’s autonomy. Women who are currently working (55.1%) using more
contraceptive as compare to women who are not working (50%). The odd of using contraceptive is
2.236 times more in the women who belong to high autonomy in household decision making indicator as
compared to the low autonomy in household decision making.

OS29: An Optimisation model for evaluating the food intake for
meeting the nutrient requirements for a healthy population with

the optimal cost

Jawahar Manivannana, Abhishek Kumara, Santu Ghoshb, Tinku Thomasb, Anura Kurpadc,
Division of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, St John’s Research Institute, Bangalore
Department of Biostatistics, St John’s Medical College, Bangalore
Department of Physiology, St John’s Medical College, Bangalore
Email: jawahar.rm@sjri.res.in
Keywords: Linear programming, Optimization, Nutrition requirement, Cost of meeting nutrition
Background:
India has a significant proportion of the burden of poverty in the world. Poverty in turn extends to poor
dietary quality, undernutrition across the life cycle and micronutrient deficiencies. The wide range of
nutrients required to lead a healthy and active life can only be derived from a well-balanced diet. Diverse

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