Determinants of Contraceptive Use among Married Women in Ethiopia: Ordinary Logistic and Multilevel Logistic Regression Analyses

Dessie, Eskezeia Yihunie (2012) Determinants of Contraceptive Use among Married Women in Ethiopia: Ordinary Logistic and Multilevel Logistic Regression Analyses. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.

PDF (Determinants of Contraceptive Use among Married Women in Ethiopia: Ordinary Logistic and Multilevel Logistic Regression Analyses) Eskezeia, Yihunie.pdf - Accepted Version Restricted to Repository staff only Download (1MB) | Request a copy

Abstract

Ethiopia is one of the sub-Saharan African countries with alarming population growth rate (2.6%) and high total fertility rate. To reduce high population growth and high fertility in Ethiopia, the contraceptive use status of women needs to be increased. The main objective of this study was to examine the determinants of contraceptive use and to examine how socio-economic, demographic and other proximate factors measured at different levels of a multilevel structure affect contraceptive use. The EDHS 2011 data have a two-level hierarchical structure, with 9,324 married women nested within eleven regions. The ordinary logistic regression and multilevel logistic regression model analysis were used to identify determinants of contraceptive use. The results of the ordinary logistic regression revealed that place of residence, woman education level, age group, religion, exposure to mass media, visited by family planning workers, desire for more children, knowledge about family planning methods, education of partners and both occupation of women and their husbands/partners were important determinants of contraceptive use. Multilevel logistic regression analysis was employed to examine regional variations. The random intercept model revealed that there was a significant variation in contraceptives use across regions. The results of random intercept with fixed slope model showed that contraceptive use in Affar and Somali regions were below the average for all regions while Addis Ababa and Amhara have better performance than the average. The Random coefficient model was used to investigate whether individual level covariates vary across regions. The results showed that contraceptive use varied across regions, and regional level random effects of mass media exposure (radio, TV and newspapers) and religion were found to be significant in explaining variations for contraceptive use across regions of Ethiopia. As a result special attention needs to be paid, in particular, to the regions while formulating family planning policies in Ethiopia, for better success rate of family planning intervention programs.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z665 Library Science. Information Science
Divisions:	Africana
Depositing User:	Selom Ghislain
Date Deposited:	02 Jul 2018 12:21
Last Modified:	02 Jul 2018 12:21
URI:	http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/6313

Actions (login required)

View Item