Adolescent Fertility in India: What Programme needs for sinking it?

This paper describes a study aiming to elicit the needs of adolescents’ fertility behaviour and unmet needs in India and major states. The objective was to understand levels and patterns of adolescent fertility in India and its major states and to see the unmet needs in family planning, also recognizes the information which could guide the development of adolescent-friendly health services by grass root level health workers. This study used the DLHS 2007-08 data and SRS data to meet the objectives. The findings demonstrate that there is clearly an unmet need for information about effective family planning services, also a large unmet need for spacing (28.4) which is often perceived by adolescents to be of primary importance. Integrating these issues into programmes is likely to be an essential element in developing health services and programmes which can reach out to the majority of adolescents in India.