Table 3.
Percentage distribution of sources of information on SRH, contraception, and abortion in Jharkhand, 2012
| SRH Information | Contraception Information | Abortion Information | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Married | Unmarried | Married | Unmarried | Married | Unmarried | ||||
| (n = 690) | (n = 691) | p-value1 | (n = 690) | (n = 691) | p-value | (n = 690) | (n = 691) | p-value | |
| Received any information | 89 | 69 | 0.001 | 89 | 74 | 0.001 | 10 | 3 | 0.001 |
| Source of Information2 | |||||||||
| Friends / neighbors | 71 | 79 | 0.004 | 80 | 82 | 0.485 | 73 | 75 | 0.809 |
| Family members/ relatives | 72 | 79 | 0.022 | 74 | 72 | 0.344 | 42 | 38 | 0.697 |
| Husband | 34 | -- | 38 | -- | 17 | -- | |||
| Outreach (AWW/ASHA) | 27 | 15 | <0.001 | 29 | 14 | <0.001 | 20 | 17 | 0.699 |
| Mass media | 17 | 20 | 0.185 | 22 | 37 | <0.001 | 13 | 42 | 0.003 |
| Wall Sign | 2 | 10 | <0.001 | 9 | 20 | <0.001 | 1 | 8 | 0.100 |
| ANM/ Nurse | 5 | 3 | 0.069 | 6 | 3 | 0.016 | 9 | 4 | 0.468 |
| Health facility-Public | 1 | 2 | 0.118 | 3 | 1 | 0.021 | 3 | 8 | 0.258 |
| Health facility-Private | 7 | 2 | <0.001 | 5 | 1 | <0.001 | 19 | 0 | 0.022 |
| Other | 1 | 1 | 0.963 | 1 | <1 | 0.156 | 1 | 0 | 0.553 |
AWW Anganwadi worker, ASHA Accredited social health activist, ANM Auxiliary nurse midwife
1P-value associated with Z-test of two 2 sample proportions
2Percentage computed among women who reported receiving any information on each topic