Determinants Of Family Planning Practice Among Women Of Reproductive Age In Ethiopia (application Of Multilevel Logistic Model

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Ethiopia is the second most populous nation in Africa. Family planning is a viable solution torncontrol such fast growing population. In Ethiopia, women have, on average, about five childrenrnand surveys show that the unmet need for family planning services is high. This study aimed tornidentify factors that affect women’s family planning practice in Ethiopia. In this study the datarnsource is EDHS 2011 with a total of 16515 women of age 15-49 years. In this study 10176 allrnwomen of reproductive age are considered. Descriptive statistics, binary logistic regression andrnmultilevel logistic regression are used for statistical analysis. The descriptive result revealedrnthat about 15.3% of the women practiced family planning while 84.7 % did not practice familyrnplanning. The logistic regression analysis revealed that region, place of residence, age of arnwoman, religion of a woman, educational level of women, economic status, knowledge about FPrnmethod, visited by FP worker in the last 12 months before the survey, occupation of women,rnmarital status, ability to refuse sex, exposure to mass media and number of living children ofrnwomen were found to be significant predictors for women’s family planning practice. Thernestimates of the multilevel analysis showed that variables that are reported to be significant inrnbinary logistic regression analysis were also found to be significant. The effect of thesernsignificant variables is the same for each region in Ethiopia except for place of residence andrnexposure to mass media on women’s FP practice which were not the same for each region inrnEthiopia.

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