Predictors of modern contraceptive use among adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa: a mixed effects multilevel analysis of data from 29 demographic and health surveys

Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku

doi:10.1186/s40834-020-00138-1

Table 2 Distribution of modern contraceptive use across individual and contextual factors of adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa

From: Predictors of modern contraceptive use among adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa: a mixed effects multilevel analysis of data from 29 demographic and health surveys

Variables	Weighted N	Weighted %	Modern contraceptive use	χ2 (p-value)
Age				365.7 (< 0.001)
15–19	33,197	36.4	21.1
20–24	57,886	63.6	26.8
Marital status				476.9 (< 0.001)
Never married	33,359	36.6	28.5
Married	38,564	42.3	21.3
Cohabiting	14,012	15.4	24.6
Widowed/divorced/separated	5148	5.7	25.7
Religion				8.2 (< 0.001)
Christianity	60,928	66.9	29.1
Islam	25,992	28.5	15.0
Other	4162	4.6	20.5
Employment status				45.3 (< 0.001)
Not working	37,956	41.7	26.2
Working	53,127	58.3	23.6
Age at first sex				281.8 (< 0.001)
Less than 15 years	19,252	21.1	20.1
15–19 years	65,236	71.6	25.9
20–24 years	6595	7.2	26.2
Parity				371.0 (< 0.001)
No birth	33,799	37.1	22.3
One birth	31,748	34.9	27.0
Two births	16,884	18.5	27.6
Three births	6577	7.2	21.7
Four or more births	2074	2.3	14.7
Frequency of reading newspaper/magazine				7.9 (< 0.001)
Not at all	70,291	77.2	21.4
Less than once a week	10,880	12.0	35.4
At least once a week	9912	10.9	36.5
Frequency of listening to radio				698.1 (< 0.001)
Not at all	36,24	40.1	20.5
Less than once a week	17,828	19.6	26.0
At least once a week	36,731	40.3	28.3
Frequency of watching television				640.2 (< 0.001)
Not at all	48,953	53.8	21.6
Less than once a week	11,640	12.8	25.9
At least once a week	30,490	33.5	29.3
Desire for more children				263.2 (< 0.001)
Have another	81,348	89.3	24.4
Undecided	3668	4.0	20.1
No more	6067	6.7	31.7
Ideal number of children				12.5 (< 0.001)
0–3	28,448	31.2	33.7
4–5	41,582	45.7	25.6
6+	21,052	23.1	10.8
Place of residence				969.0 (< 0.001)
Urban	37,290	40.9	30.0
Rural	53,793	59.1	21.0
Community literacy level				3.3 (< 0.001)
Low	29,156	32.0	18.1
Moderate	33,323	36.6	27.0
High	28,603	31.4	28.8
Community socio-economic status				7.3 (< 0.001)
Low	50,072	55.0	19.9
Moderate	7563	8.3	30.7
High	33,448	36.7	30.5
Community knowledge of modern method				6.0 (< 0.001)
Low	72,827	78.0	27.1
Moderate	16,786	18.4	15.6
High	1470	1.6	9.5

Source: Demographic and Health Surveys

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