ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the areas and the Family Planning Association (FPA) and local authority facilities in them at the time of the survey. It starts with some basic statistics about the study areas and ends with a discussion about the reasons for the wide variations between areas. The chapter presents the populations of the twelve study areas and the administrative districts. They have been divided into five groups: the relatively poor working-class urban areas; prosperous working-class urban areas; northern rural areas; southern rural areas; and middle-class urban areas. The chapter provides FPA clinic facilities and the proportion of mothers who had been to a clinic in the twelve study areas. Middle-class mothers are more likely to go to family planning clinics than mothers whose husbands are in manual occupations, 34 per cent compared with 18 per cent. The chapter summerizes the frequency of clinic sessions and the different times they were open in the twelve areas.
