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Table 1 Background characteristics of the study participants, in 2019 (n = 8885)

From: Modern contraceptive method utilization and determinant factors among women in Ethiopia: Multinomial logistic regression mini- EDHS-2019 analysis

Background characteristics

Weighted Frequency (n)

Weighted Percent (%)

Region

  

Tigray

Afar

Amhara

Oromia

Somali

Benishangul

SNNPR

Gambela

Harari

Addis Ababa

Dire Dawa

733

641

948

1052

640

747

1008

723

763

818

812

8.2

7.2

10.7

11.8

7.2

8.4

11.3

8.1

8.6

9.2

9.1

Place of residence

  

Urban

Rural

2951

5934

33.2

66.8

Literacy

  

Cannot read at all

Able to read only parts of sentence

Able to read whole sentence

No card with required language

Blind/visually impaired

4406

1067

2904

505

3

49.6

12.0

32.7

5.7

0.0

Educational Level

  

No education

Primary

Secondary

Higher

3640

3345

1149

751

41.0

37.6

12.9

8.5

Religion

  

Orthodox

Protestant

Muslim

Catholic

Traditional

Others

3374

78

1711

3635

60

27

38.0

0.9

19.3

40.9

0.7

0.3

Wealth index

  

Poorest

Poorer

Middle

Richer

Richest

2031

1341

1268

1344

2901

22.9

15.1

14.3

15.1

32.7