A Model for Estimating Births Averted through IUCD Insertions in India

Several attempts have been made recently to estimate the births averted through different family planning methods in India by authors like Agarwala (1968), Agarwala and Venkatacharya (1968), Stolnitz (1968), Venkatacharya (1971) and others. The number of births averted can be defined as the difference between the number of births that would have been expected from the group of couples had they not practiced any of the existing methods of family planning and the number of births which actually occurred to the same group of couples after the contraceptive status they acquired under the programme.