Research Article
Modern Contraceptive Use and Influencing Factors in Amhara Regional State: Further Analysis of Ethiopian Demographic Health Survey Data 2016
Table 1
Sociodemographic and other characteristics of married reproductive-age women in the Amhara region, EDHS 2016.
| | Variables | Weighted frequency (%) |
| | Educational status | | | No education | 1.526 (69.1) | | Primary | 452 (20.5) | | Secondary+ | 229 (10.4) |
| | Occupational status | | | Not working | 863 (39.1) | | Working | 1.344 (60.9) |
| | Wealth index | | | Poor | 780 (35.3) | | Middle | 530 (24.0) | | Rich | 897 (40.7) |
| | Family size | | | ≤4 | 901 (40.8) | | 5–8 | 1.198 (54.3) | | ≥9 | 108 (4.9) |
| | Age at first marriage | | | ≤18 | 1.801 (81.6) | | 19–24 | 335 (15.2) | | ≥25 | 71 (3.2) |
| | Partner education | | | No education | 1.389 (62.9) | | Primary | 508 (23.0) | | Secondary+ | 276 (12.5) | | Do not know | 34 (1.6) |
| | Partner occupation | | | Have no work | 42 (1.9) | | Have work | 2.157 (97.8) | | Do not know | 8 (0.3) |
| | Future fertility preference | | | Want more soon | 422 (19.1) | | Want later | 742 (33.6) | | Want but time not decided | 62 (2.8) | | Undecided | 116 (5.3) | | Want no | 816 (37.0) | | Declared infecund | 49 (2.2) |
| | Number of children ever born | | | 0 | 229 (10.4) | | 1–2 | 630 (28.5) | | 3–4 | 567 (25.7) | | ≥5 | 781 (35.4) |
| | Number of living children | | | | 233 (10.6) | | | 712 (32.2) | | | 631 (28.6) | | | 631 (28.6) |
| | Ideal number of children | | | | 415 (18.8) | | | 1.477 (66.9) | | | 315 (14.3) |
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