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    Assessment of Ethiopian Women’s Desire to Limit Number of Children
    (Addis Ababa University, 2023-06-27) Birikset Zemedkun; Eshetu Wencheko
    The term "fertility preference" refers to the desire for more children or fertility goals as well as the ideal family size and number of children. The size of a family has a significant impact on the well-being and health of each individual, the family, and the community in addition to the welfare and health of a nation as a whole. The general objective of this study was to assess determinants of desired number children among Ethiopia women based on data from Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey conducted in 2016. In order to study childbearing rates this study employed a count regression models: Poisson, NB, and Poisson inverse Gaussian (PIG) model. We found PIG as the most suitable model for assessing the data at hand. It was found that age and place of residence of women, women education level, religion, wealth index, living children, women’s occupation, duration of marriage, and age of women at first birth were significantly associated with the desired number of children that a women want to have. Policy makers may want to consider targeted interventions that address those specific covariates in order to reduce the number of desired number of children in areas where desired family size is higher.