Paper Title
Inter-District Disparity in Awareness and use of Family Planning Methods in Assam

Abstract
The level of inter-district disparity in awareness and use of family planning methods of twenty seven districts of the state has been worked out with the help of a number of developmental indicators. The level of development is estimated with the help of composite index based on optimum combination of all the developmental indicators. The composite indicators are obtained with the help of two different methods. The district-wise data in respect of eighteen indicators are used for twenty seven districts of the state. The data of the indicators are for the year 2017-2018. The district Kamrup-Metro is ranked first and the district Dima-Hasao is ranked last. All the districts are categorised in four categories depending on the level of development. From the analysis, it is observed that a very nominal percentage of total population resides in the developed districts. Ranks of the districts obtained from both the methods are compared. It is observed that there is no significant difference between the ranks obtained from the two methods. For bringing out uniform regional development, model districts have been identified and from them potential targets have been estimated for low developed districts. These districts require improvements of various dimensions in some of the indicators for enhancing the level of overall socio-economic development. Keywords - Composite index, Model districts, Development indicators, Potential targets.