Background: The proportion of young women reporting unintended pregnancy and unmet need for contraception remains high in developing countries. In order to avert the unintended pregnancies and consequent adverse outcomes, contraceptive use has been prioritized as a key intervention. Improving the universal access to sexual and reproductive health services including contraceptives was a key target of the Millennium Development Goals.

Objective: A study to assess the attitude on contraception among rural women in rural areas of Coimbatore.

Methods: Descriptive study was done among rural women through multi stage sampling technique and a pretested interview schedule was used for data collection.

Results: Nearly 50% of them are between the age group of 26 -30 years and about 70% of them had education till Diploma/graduate level. Nearly 70% of them got married within 5 years and the age at marriage was between 18-25 years for about 90% of the mothers.

Conclusion: There was a significant association between educational status, employment, monthly income and duration of marriage life with the attitude. There was no association between attitude and some of the variables (age, type of family, age of the child and gender of the child).