Research Article
Prevalence and Predictors of Contraceptives Use among Women Aged (15–49 years) with Induced Abortion History in Ghana
Table 1
Background characteristics of respondents (N = 3,039).
| Variable | Frequency | Percentage |
| Age | | | 15–19 | 115 | 3.516 | 20–24 | 446 | 14.45 | 25–29 | 629 | 20.85 | 30–34 | 576 | 18.74 | 35–39 | 515 | 17.36 | 40–44 | 399 | 13.54 | 45–49 | 359 | 11.53 |
| Educational level | | | Primary | 503 | 16.68 | JHS | 1222 | 41.29 | SHS and above | 1011 | 32.14 | No education | 303 | 9.891 |
| Religious distribution | | | Christianity | 2751 | 92.16 | Islam | 244 | 6.276 | Traditional | 8 | 0.2365 | Others | 36 | 1.325 |
| Contraceptives use | | | Yes | 1130 | 36.69 | No | 1909 | 63.31 |
| Residence | | | Rural | 925 | 31.65 | Urban | 2114 | 68.35 |
| Union | | | Yes | 2002 | 66.51 | No | 1037 | 33.49 |
| Region | | | Western | 388 | 13 | Central | 248 | 8.125 | Greater Accra | 567 | 26.05 | Volta | 212 | 6.005 | Eastern | 364 | 10.62 | Ashanti | 644 | 25.05 | Brong Ahafo | 383 | 9.493 | Northern | 86 | 0.7622 | Upper East | 69 | 0.4839 | Upper West | 78 | 0.4042 |
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