Unmet need for family planning and associated factors among adolescent girls and young women in Ethiopia: a multilevel analysis of Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey

Table 1 Distribution of unmet need for family planning across individual and community level factors among AGYW in Ethiopia, EDHS 2016

Variables	Weighted N	Weighted %	Unmet need for FP	X² ( p-value)
Age				17.3 (< 0.001)
15–19	255	23.5	32.6
20–24	831	76.5	26.9
Educational status				54.0 (< 0.001)
Religion
Orthodox	505	46.5	15.4
Muslim	317	29.2	54.2
Protestant	235	21.6	19.7
Other	29	2.7	29.4
No formal education	285	26.2	39.1
Primary education	734	67.6	26.1
Secondary and above	67	6.2	6
Occupation of the respondents				12.7 (> 0.05)
No work	595	54.8	31.3
Professional workers	206	19	12.1
Agricultural workers	262	24.2	34.1
Other	23	2	28.2
Household wealth				144.4 (< 0.001)
Poor	408	37.6	44.1
Middle	218	20	29.8
Rich	246	22.7	13.6
Media exposure				386.5 (< 0.001)
Yes	801	26.2	20.4
No	285	73.8	31.1
Parity				67.3 (< 0.001)
Primipara	694	63.9	22.5
Multipara	392	36.1	38.5
Age at first birth				26.9 (> 0.05)
< 18 years	610	56.2	31.6
≥ 18 years	476	43.8	24
Terminated pregnancy				21.7 (< 0.02)
Yes	49	4.5	28
No	1037	95.5	35
Decision maker for FP
Mainly respondent	234	23.5	30
Mainly husband	47	4.3	25.5
Jointly	805	72.2	25.5	186.8 (< 0.001)
Have another	929	85.6	26.2
Undecided	19	1.7	52.5
Wants no more	138	12.7	38.7
Age at first sex				43.1 (> 0.05)
< 18 years	899	82.8	31.5
≥ 18 years	187	17.2	21.7
Resident				52.9 (< 0.001)
Rural	902	83.1	32.7
Urban	184	16.9	6.4
Community level poverty				36.5 (< 0.001)
Low	102	9.4	25.5
High	984	90.6	28.6
Community-level media exposure				314.5 (< 0.001)
Low	507	46.7	53.9
High	579	53.3	19.6
Community level education				47.6 (< 0.001)
Low	506	46.6	36.6
High	580	53.4	21
Region				28.3 (< 0.001)
Developing	35	3.2	42.9
Developed	1051	96.8	27.8

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