Table 5 Factors associated with not using long acting and permanent contraceptive methods among married women of reproductive age who desire birth spacing or limiting in Aksum town, North Ethiopia, 2015, (N = 539)

  < 25

 25-34

  ≥ 35

86

201

172

24

33

23

1

1.70 (0.95, 3.05)

2.08 (1.11, 3.89)

1

0.75 (0.35, 1.60)

1.24 (0.64, 2.40)

 No formal education

 Primary education

 Secondary education

 Above secondary education

116

170

131

42

14

33

19

14

2.74 (1.21, 6.22)

1.72 (0.84, 3.50)

2.30 (1.06, 4.98)

1

2.30 (0.75, 7.04)

1.87 (0.73, 4.84)

3.05 (1.18, 7.85)*

1

 Daily laborer

 Merchant

 Employed

 Student

 Housewife

22

65

57

7

308

9

15

11

1

44

0.35 (0.15, 0.81)

0.62 (0.33, 1.18)

0.74 (0.36, 1.52)

1.00 (0.12, 8.32)

1

0.31 (0.12, 0.82)*

0.69 (0.33, 1.44)

1.47 (0.59, 3.68)

1.38 (0.12, 15.55)

1

 Self/husband

 Both wife & husband jointly

89

370

7

73

1

2.5 (1.12, 5.59)

1

1.54 (0.93, 2.48)

 Yes

 No

304

155

74

6

1

6.25 (2.66, 14.69)

1

5.93 (3.61, 8.77)***

 High

173

41

1

1

 Medium

124

26

1.13 (0.66, 1.95)

1.44 (0.76, 2.72)

 Low

162

13

2.95 (1.53, 5.71)

2.51 (1.08, 5.85)*

 Positive

224

60

1

1

 Negative

235

20

3.15 (1.84, 5.39)

2.00 (1.02, 3.87)*

 Approve

 Disapprove/don’t know

275

184

63

17

1

2.48 (1.41, 4.37)

1

3.60 (3.06, 5.84)***

 Self/husband

 Both wife & husband jointly

172

287

10

70

4.20 (2.12, 8.42)

1

2.58 (0.96, 4.20)

1

 Yes

 No

156

303

63

17

1

7.20 (4.07, 12.72)

1

7.70 (4.18, 14.17)***