Abstract: Bangladesh has highest Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR) after Sri Lanka and Bhutan in South Asia but still lagged behind with the developed countries. This paper uses data from Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2011 to examine different socio-economic and demographic factors which are correlates to current contraception use among currently married women in urban and rural areas in Bangladesh...........
Keywords: Contraception, Contraceptive prevalence, family planning, Urban, Rural, Bangladesh
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