Measuring acceptances in a family planning program

The decomposition of rates by eligibility criteria

Bibliographic Data

ID10967671
AuthorsJohn Y Takeshita (Sociology Department and the Population Studies Center, The University of Michigan, Michigan, USA, corresponding author), Ronald Freedman (Sociology Department and the Population Studies Center, The University of Michigan, Michigan, USA)
Year1967
Volume4
Issue1
Pages158-171
Publication date1967-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDemography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2060359
PMID21279770
OpenAlexW1977586315
LanguageEN

Acceptance rates in family planning programs can be broken into components useful in analyzing programs and in evaluating success. In almost any program some couples can be defined as “ineligible” on the basis of alternative criteria. (Sterilized couples are an obvious example.) Then, the total acceptance rate can be initially separated into two components—the proportion eligible and the acceptance rate among the eligible. If some of those initially defined as ineligible become acceptors, there is a third component—the ratio of all acceptances to acceptances among the eligible only. These various components can be used to analyze the basis for varying acceptance rates between different strata of a population

Actuarial science · Business · Population · Sociology · Statistics · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Mathematics

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