Impact of Women’s Autonomy and Socio-economic Factors on Delivery Assistance in Bangladesh

Abstract

The article is focused to derived a method to calculate women’s autonomy and selected socio-economic factors including women’s basic education or basic literacy, wealth index, newspaper reading practice as well as television watching practice on delivery assistance in Bangladesh. The PLS-SEM technique was employed to meet the objective. The significance of the associations has also been evaluated. The analytical outcomes of the study designated that women’s autonomy had a significantly negative impact on delivery assistance whereas the selected socio-economic factors had a significantly positive impact on delivery assistance. Furthermore, the selected socio-economic factors demonstrated a significantly negative effect on women’s autonomy in developing countries. PLS-SEM model’s reliability is also explained to show the functionality of the model.