Chalachew Arega (Ato)Tesfaw Ashebir2024-12-182024-12-182022-01https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/3903Background: For the context of this research, fertility preference refers to women's desire to have more children. Fertility preference studies are essential because actual fertility is largely determined by women's fertility preferences. However, there has been little research into fertility preferences in Ethiopia. As a result, this study was required to be carried out. Objective: The study's main objective was to assess the variables that influence the desire for more children. The socioeconomic, cultural, demographic, geographic, and contraceptive variables were selected, and a binary logistic regression model was fitted for the variables. Methods: a community based cross-sectional study was employed to assess the determinants of fertility preference among currently marriage women. A sample size of 417 mothers attending the above-mentioned services were interviewed. The collected data was cleaned, checked for completeness, compiled and entered into SPSS for analysis. A quantitative technique was used to identify the key determinant factors in the selected Kirkos sub city woreda 3 and 7. Results: The analysis showed that the women desire for more children were 70.7 percent, and the women not desire for more children was 29.3 percent. Controlling for the effect of others, according to the result obtained from logistic regression model, occupation, birth interval and the ideal number of children were found to have statistically significant effect on the desire for more children. CONCLUSION The main goal of this study was to identify the determinants of fertility preference among currently married women in Kirkos sub city Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. As this study conducted in urban area the result shows that there is until high desire for more children and it is much compatible with rural women regardless of determinant factors. Data on currently married women were utilized to assess the associations between each dependent variables and considered independent variables. For this study, among all independent variables considered, significant number of variables was found to affect the dependent variables. With regarded, the desire for more children was affected by occupation, ideal number of children and birth interval. Most of the findings obtained from this study were found to be compatible with other studies undergone worldwide. The result showed that the desire for more children vi and not had 70.7% and 29.3% respectively. for this study the significant variable for desire for more children was occupation, birth interval for the next birth and the women ideal number of children Therefore, the finding is important to adopt programs to discourage the desire for more children and decrease the fertility rate by considering these factors critically. Moreover, continuous education and knowledge on reproductive health will help for minimize fertility behavior for the women. RECOMMENDATION Based on the results of this study the following recommendation can be forwarded to help women to shift towards their reasonable best fertility preferences. 1. Better preferred waiting time could be encouraged when women are supplied with contraceptive use and must therefore be encouraged by district health offices and nongovernmental organizations working on reproductive health. 2. Educating women by health office, to prevent excess fertility, about the importance of small family size is important. 3. Government must revise its outlook on population matter and should develop clear population policy. It is not clear whether the current population policy is in effect or not. 4. There is a need to provide information to women by health office experts regarding the number of children they prefer in their life based on scientific evidence and their capacity to rear children.enfertilitydesire for childrendeterminant factor.Thesis