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Abstract

Childlessness is an issue of global concern. Though childlessness has been an essential feature of the population
of the developed world but the situation is altogether different in developing country like India. Childlessness has
increased remarkable in India (WHO, 1995). Thus, using data from Census of India 2001 and 2011, this paper tries
to make a spatial analysis of childlessness at district level in India and its association with fertility. Bi-variate LISA
maps, Moran’s I and spatial lag and error models have been applied using GeoDa software. The result indicates
that for the last two decades (2001 and 2011) there is a high-high association of childlessness in the southern states
and low-low association in the districts of the north- western and northern states. Both the spatial error model and
fixed effect model indicates that there is an inverse relation of childlessness and TFR. Thus, a spatial analysis of
childlessness and its relation with fertility throws some light on the much unexplored area in Indian context.

Key Words: Childlessness, Infertility, Spatial analysis, spatial error model, fixed effect model

800 The Road from ICPD to SDG: Health Returns of Reducing Unmet Need for Family
Planning in India

Md Juel Rana
International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India

Categories

3. Fertility, Fecundity, Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights

Abstract

The ICPD (1994) brought a global consensus for ensuring the reproductive rights of the individuals or couples. This
study attempts to study the implications of ensuring the reproductive rights in reducing the unmet need for family
planning in the healthy lives and well-being of the country. The data have been collected from various sources such
as World Population Prospects, National Family Health Survey and Sample Registration System. This study used the
Family Planning and Demographic Projections modules of Spectrum program to estimate the health outcomes
during 1993-2016 and to project for 2016-2030. The findings suggest that the reduction of the unmet need for
family planning has substantially averted unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion and maternal and under-five
deaths in India during the last two and half decades. Also, India has huge potential to improve the reproductive,
maternal and child health outcomes in the coming decades if the unmet need for family planning is reduced to
achieve the SDG-3. Thus, strategies are required to reduce the unmet need for family planning with quality services
to achieve the SDG for the goalpost 2030. Ensuring the reproductive health and rights of the individuals or couples
will also help achieve the other SDGs by 2030.

793 Factors Affecting Use of Antenatal Care, Institutional Delivery and Maternal
Mortality Ratio in India

Nalini Singh

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India