All India Congress of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 04–08 Jan 2009 · Birla Auditorium, Jaipur

Objective: To obtain information from rural women regarding their contraceptive knowledge, practices and utilization of services Methodology: A multi-indicator cluster survey of 117,465 eligible women was carried out in the sampled areas of 29 districts all over the country. In this article, results for the state of Rajasthan are being presented. From among the current contraceptive users, all users of IUD, OC and acceptors of a permanent method during the last one year (n=1097) and women who were not using any family planning method were interviewed in detail (n=2262).