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    • Reproductive Health
    • Family Planning

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    • Traditional family planning metrics often infer contraceptive concordance from fertility desires, potentially misrepresenting actual contraceptive behavior.
    • A precise measure is needed to understand the alignment between women's stated contraceptive preferences and their concurrent contraceptive practices.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose and validate a novel indicator of contraceptive concordance.
    • To assess the alignment between stated contraceptive preferences and actual contraceptive use in married women in rural India.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized data from a cross-sectional survey of 1,958 married women in rural India.
    • Developed a new indicator to measure contraceptive concordance, distinguishing between wanted and unwanted contraceptive use/non-use.

    Main Results:

    • 60.8% of women wanted to use contraception, and 51.2% were current users.
    • 60% of women were concordant (wanted users or wanted non-users).
    • 24.8% were unwanted non-users (wanted contraception but did not use), and 15.2% were unwanted users (used contraception despite not wanting to).

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed contraceptive concordance indicator offers a more nuanced understanding of contraceptive decision-making and behavior.
    • Findings highlight specific subgroups (unwanted non-users and unwanted users) requiring targeted family planning interventions.
    • The indicator provides comparative advantages over traditional measures in assessing contraceptive alignment.