Determinants of Contraceptive Practice Among the Tribal Women in Rangamati Hill District

Abstract

This paper attempts to identrfj, the determinants of contraception use among the tribal women of Rangamati Hill district of Bangladesh. The findings wggest that the contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) of'the study women is quite higher as compared to the mainstream population of Bangladesh. The both bivariate and multivariate analysis apparently reveal that, the curr*etzt use of jirnzily planning methods signz9cantly varies with the socioeconomic and denlographic variables: age of the respondents, education of husband, duration of marriage, son-preference, desire for additional children, type of family, place of residence and ethnic identity.