Research Article
of unwanted births ends in childbirths, and which are related to deaths and injuries for both mother and child. Due to lack of availability of reliable data at the small level (area-wise) specifically in developing countries like India. In this article the small area estimation technique is used for the estimation of met and unmet need for contraception for 187 towns of Rajasthan state of India and for empirical analysis. Data is taken from the District Level Household Survey (DLHS): 2002-04 and
Piyush Kant Rai,
Sarla Pareek,
Hemlata Joshi
Statistics in Transition New Series , ISSUE 2, 329–360