Determinants of Fertility Preferences among Currently Married Women in Oromia Region, Ethiopia
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2018-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Fertility preference, for this study, is the intention of women for desire of women for more children, the preferred waiting time to the next birth and the ideal number of children. Fertility preference studies are significant as the actual fertility depends mostly on women`s preferences of fertility. However, there is limited study conducted about fertility preferences in Ethiopia so far. As a result this study is necessitated to be conducted. The objective of the study to explore factors that affect the women`s desire for more children, preferred waiting time to the next birth and the ideal number of children. Binary logistic regression model was fitted for all the three dependent variables against the selected variables of socio-economic, cultural, demographic, geographic, contraceptive and standardized decision making index. Controlling for the effect of others, according to the result obtained from logistic regression model, ethnicity, current age of women, current contraceptive use, number of living daughter and number of living son were found to have statistically significant effect on the preferred birth interval. Moreover, these variables also had associations with the desire for more children except ethnicity. Religion had also statistically significant association with the desire for more children. Standardized decision making index, education, number of living daughter, religion and place of residence were found to have significant effect on the ideal number of children. Factors which were found to have statistically significant effect on each dependent variable needs to receive attentions by concerned bodies to make women to prefer fertility reasonably.
Keywords: birth, children, desire, fertility, ideal, preference, Oromia, women