Sterilisation Adoption and Socio - Demographic Factors : Some Evidence form NSS Data of Andhra pradesh

This paper highlights primarily the role of socio-demographic factors in Influencing sterilization adoption in Andhra Pradesh and its regions. Since sterilization adoption is defined to be a binary choice variable, three qualitative choice models viz., logit, probit and Tobit are formulated and estimated. The evidences, based on the 42nd Round of NSS data, reveal that socio-demographic factors such as duration of marriage. number of ch iIdren and presence of an educated aduIt female in the family, play an Important role in sterilization adoption in Andhra Pradesh.