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7Senior Research Staff of the Centre also monitored and supervised the data collectionwork. Cooperation was sought from the Directorate of Family Welfare for the successfulcompletion of the survey.3.3 Sample ImplementationThe research team collected the addresses and other details of the sterilizationacceptors of the selected villages from the JBM Hospital Anantnag and devised a plan tovisit all the selected acceptors. The research team sought the help of AnganwadiWorkers, ANMS, Trained Birth Attendants, etc. to locate the acceptors. But despite allthe efforts of the survey team, all the selected acceptors could not be contacted even afterrepeated visits. Out of 76 selected acceptors of sterilization, only 51 could be located bythe team (Table 2). The lapse on part of the hospital authorities in not recording thecomplete/correct addresses was the main reason for not interviewing 12 of the selectedacceptors. Six of the acceptors were not contacted even after repeated visits as they wereout of home for an extended period. Further 5 women had migrated from the placesmentioned in the address and 2 refused to be interviewed. .The research team faced a few problems in locating the acceptors because thecorrect and complete addresses were not mentioned in the case cards. For example, casteof a person is of immense help in identifying a person; unfortunately, caste of theacceptor was missing in the addresses of all the selected acceptors. Similarly the name ofthe village was given in the address but the name of the mohalla or any other benchmarkof the village in the addresses was missing.Keeping in view the disturbed conditions in the Valley, some of the acceptors haddeliberately recorded fictitious/incorrect addresses in the hospital records at the time ofacceptance of sterilization. Another problem in contacting the acceptors was theirabsence at a reported address. In some cases, the women availed the sterilization serviceswhen they were at their maternal homes and had reported the maternal address at the timeof acceptance. By the time the survey team visited the village, the acceptor was residingwith husband in another village.