Construction of Questionnaire for Measurement of Attitude towards Family Planning Programme

In India, Muslim population is increasing at the greatest rate. The fertility rate of Muslim people is higher than that of Hindus. Muslims have highest growth rate in West Bengal. To check this explosion we should adopt a suitable attitude in the direction of family planning programme. So, measurement of attitude towards family planning programme is urgently needed.. From this point of view, the present study aims to emphasis on the preparation of attitude scale relating to family planning programme of Muslim women of Murshidabad District, West Bengal. During this study, questionnaire was prepared for compilation of the data. In the present study, self made questionnaire regarding attitude towards family planning programme was prepared as suitable tool for collecting data in order to achieve the predetermined objectives of this study. Nine (9) dimensions viz. Education, Equality, Population, Small family Norm, Government facilities, Superstition, Sexually transmitted disease and Law were considered during preparation of the scale. It was a “5-points Liker Scale”. Though, at the beginning, there were thirty one (31) items or statements in the prepared attitude scale but, finally twenty one (21) items or statements were retained. The scale consist twenty one (21) statements, amomg them fifteen (15) are favourable and six (6) are unfavourable statements. The scale was highly valid as the researcher selected the most differentiating statements for the final form of the attitude scale towards family planning programme through the opinion of experts in this field. The test–retest co-efficient of the scale was found as 0.965 which is highly significant.