Awareness Level of Family Planning Practices in School Going Adolescent Girls of Different Socio-economic Groups in Rural Sectors, West Bengal

Abstract

The study focuses the awareness level of different techniques adopted for family planning among the adolescent girls having the age group of 15 yrs-19 yrs (Class IX-XII standards). A cross sectional work following a pre tested semi structured questionnaire was applied on 3140 girls in total having 1140 of middle-high socio-economic group sectors and 2000 of low-socio- economic group from peri-urban or rural sectors .The girls at IX-XII standards were selected randomly from arts and commerce field only. Results revealed that the awareness level of different methods of family planning is significantly high in upper-middle socio-economic group than low-socio-economic group. The attitude of adolescent girls about the threatening side of high population is not significantly low in low- socio-economic group but girls of high-socio-economic group are conscious about the effect of such high population on our future generation. It may be concluded that socio-economic factor plays a vital role for awareness building on the family planning methods.