Abstract
Despite widespread adoption of family planning in the developing world contraceptive use is still very low in sub-Saharan Africa including Ethiopia and in other regions. The general objective of this study was identifying the socioeconomic factors of modern contraceptive methods usage among married women of reproductive ages (15-49 years old) in Hawassa city. From a total 990 sampled married women about 57.9% (573) were modern contraception methods users. Bayesian logistic regression procedure was adopted to make inference about the parameters of a logistic regression model. The purpose of this method is generating the posterior distribution of the unknown parameters given both the data and some prior density for the unknown parameters. Bayesian inference for logistic regression models is derived applying a Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm to simulate from the joint posterior distribution of the regression and the link parameters.
Highlights
1.1 Background A rapid population growth is a burden on the resources of many developing countries
This study indicated that women with higher monthly incomes were less likely to use modern contraception methods than who were without monthly incomes
The main purpose of this study was identifying the determinant factors of modern contraceptive usage among married women of reproductive ages (15 - 49 years old) in Hawassa city
Summary
1.1 Background A rapid population growth is a burden on the resources of many developing countries. Many countries consider limiting population growth as an important component of their overall developmental goal to improve living standards and the quality of life of the people. This strategy is enhanced by the availability of effective modern contraceptive methods since the 1960s. The Millennium Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2000, require member countries to achieve a set of goals, of which Goal 5 is to improve maternal healthy, reducing three quarters of the ratio of women dying in childbirth by 2015 In all these programs, modern contraception plays a central role in the strategies to achieve the goals set. During the period 1990 to 2005 Ethiopia’s total fertility rate declined by about one child and the use of contraceptives tripled from 5 percent to 15 percent, with most of the increase coming p.5462
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