Table 1 Independent variables considered for multivariate model inclusion

Sociodemographic determinants

Access to care

 Wealth index (standardized)

 Barrier to seeking medical care: getting permission

 Age

 Educational attainment

 Barrier to seeking medical care: money

 Residence (urban/rural)

 Barrier to seeking medical care: distance

 Currently working

 Barrier to seeking medical care: not wanting to go alone

 Religion

Reproductive Preferences

 Marital status

 Ever terminated pregnancy Age at first sex

Women’s empowerment

 Number of children

 Home ownership

 Ideal number of children

 Land ownership

 Desire for more children

  Health care decision making

  Total number of wives

 Wife beating justified for refusal to have sex

  Age at first marriage/cohabitation ^a

Knowledge and information on family planning methods

  Age at first birth

 Knowledge of contraceptive method^a

  Partner’s desire for more children

 Heard family planning messages on radio

Sexual and Reproductive Health Behavior

 Saw family planning messages in newspaper/magazine

 Sex partners, last 12 months

 Saw family planning messages on TV

 Sex partners, lifetime

 Visited by a family planning health care worker in the last 12 months

 Recent sexual activity

 Visited a health facility in the last 12 months

 Contraceptive use and intention^a

 Last source of modern contraceptive^a

 Reason for discontinuation of previous modern method^a