The fertility level of Ethiopia, especially in the rural areas, is unacceptably high. This is leadingrnto negative influence on economic and social development. Thus, understanding those factorsrnthat influence the fert ility intention of women is important for family planning program purposesrnand population policy. The main objective of thi s study is to identify factors which influencernwomen's intentions to limit child-bearing in rural Ethiopia. The source of the data was the 20 IIrnEthiopian Demographic and Health Survey. A weighted sub-sample of 10,864 women wasrndrawn from the DHS women's dataset. The ordinary logistic regression analysis and multilevelrnlogistic regression were applied to examine the association between intention to limit childbearingrnand demographic, socio-economic, and cultural characteristics. The ordinary logisticrnregression analysis revealed that the age of a woman, region of residence, religion, woman'srneducation, knowledge about fami ly planning (FP), current use of any family planning method,rnmarital status of women, visited by FP workers, wealth index, media exposure, number of livingrnchildren and occupation of women were the most important variables that explained thernvariability in desi re to limit child-bearing. The multilevel logistic regression analysis showed thatrnthere were substantial variations in desire to limit chi ld-bearing among eight regions in ruralrnEthiopia. Accordingly, the random intercept model revealed that there was a significancernvariation in intention to limit child-bearing across the considered regions. Results of randomrncoefficient for the selected few predictor variables, number of living children was found to bernsigni ficant in explaining variations in intention to limit child-bearing across the regions. Thus,rnimproving access to fam ily planning services to women who have achieved their fertility goalsrnwould be important.