Determinants Of Age At First Birth In Goro Wereda Welkite Town

A WOlllOll'sfirsl birth is aile oflhe 1110.11 sigllificallt evellts ill her life. 111 lIlallY paris ofrnElh iopia Ihe lIIediall age at jirst birlh was too yOllllg (below 18). nll's cross-secliollalrnsurvey Ivas COli dueled ill March 2009 at Cora Woreda, We/kite Tawil, SNNPR, 10rnexalllille Ihe lIIediall age at givillg the jirst birlh alld ils' deterlllillams. Bothrnqllaillitative olld qualitative data were employed to ullderlake Ihis sludy. For Ihernquaillitative sectioll, a stalldardized questiollilaire was prepared while ill-depthrnillterview alld Focus Croup Discussiolls (FCDs) were cOllducled 10 collecl qualiTativerndala. A lotal of 423 womell ill Ihe age rallge 15 10 49 years had parlicljJated ill thernstudy.rnThefilldillg revealed that, the mediall age at givillg thejirst birth ill Wolkite tOWIl wasrn19 years of age. The logistic regressioll slatistic illdicated that age al jirst marriage,rnage at jirst sex, cOlltraceptive use and educatioll exhibited statistically significalltrnimpact 011 Ihe 1II0thers' age at givillg the jirst birth. Correspolldillgly, the chi-squarerntest had also showil that, age at marriage, age at jirst sex, cOlltraceptive use,rneducatioll alld work status of the women in Welkite town had a sigllificallt (p

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