Factors Influencing Women's Intention to Limit Child-bearing in Rural Ethiopia
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2013-04
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Addis Ababa University
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The fertility level of Ethiopia, especially in the rural areas, is unacceptably high. This is leading
to negative influence on economic and social development. Thus, understanding those factors
that influence the fert ility intention of women is important for family planning program purposes
and population policy. The main objective of thi s study is to identify factors which influence
women's intentions to limit child-bearing in rural Ethiopia. The source of the data was the 20 II
Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey. A weighted sub-sample of 10,864 women was
drawn from the DHS women's dataset. The ordinary logistic regression analysis and multilevel
logistic regression were applied to examine the association between intention to limit childbearing
and demographic, socio-economic, and cultural characteristics. The ordinary logistic
regression analysis revealed that the age of a woman, region of residence, religion, woman's
education, knowledge about fami ly planning (FP), current use of any family planning method,
marital status of women, visited by FP workers, wealth index, media exposure, number of living
children and occupation of women were the most important variables that explained the
variability in desi re to limit child-bearing. The multilevel logistic regression analysis showed that
there were substantial variations in desire to limit chi ld-bearing among eight regions in rural
Ethiopia. Accordingly, the random intercept model revealed that there was a significance
variation in intention to limit child-bearing across the considered regions. Results of random
coefficient for the selected few predictor variables, number of living children was found to be
signi ficant in explaining variations in intention to limit child-bearing across the regions. Thus,
improving access to fam ily planning services to women who have achieved their fertility goals
would be important.
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Factors Influencing Women's Intention to Limit Child-bearing