The data used in these analyses are from the 2000 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey. The survey covered a nationally representative sample of 15,367 women age 15-49 and 2,607 men age 15-59. The sample was weighted to make the survey base more accurately represent the population from which the sample was drawn. Thus the descriptive tables are based on weighted numbers. However, since multivariate analyses are run to clarify the relationship between and/or among individual responses to questions and how they relate to an overall measure, it is based on unweighted data because it preserves the one respondent/one response relationship. For further details about the design of the survey, refer to the 2000 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey final report (CSA and ORC Macro, 2001).
The analyses is restricted to fecund nonusers who express a desire to space or limit the number of children they want and those who have a met need, that is, those who are currently using contraception. Excluded from these analyses are women who want another child within two years and infecund and menopausal women. These women total 4,291 when weighted. The bivariate analyses provide a preliminary look at the characteristics of women with unmet need.
These analyses call for an examination of why women in some categories have a greater unmet need than in others, and the extent to which their unmet demand is satisfied. They also provide a basis for the selection of the more important variables to be included in the multivariate analysis. The multivariate analyses examine the importance of each variable when the influence of other variables are controlled, to get a clearer picture of some of the factors that determine unmet need. The total number of relevant cases in the multivariate analyses is 3,885. Conceptual Framework Figure 1 lays the conceptual framework for this study. Two groups of variables are used to examine factors influencing unmet need for family planning (Table 2). The independent variables, which influence the unmet need for family planning of the study population, are subdivided into three sets. The first two are the underlying factors that are indexed by some important demographic and socioeconomic variables. The third group of independent variables is the proximate determinants that are indexed by various indicators of women’s knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions.
For this particular study, two dependent dichotomous variables are considered (unmet need and met need). Demographic and socioeconomic factors are assumed to be the underlying determinants of the unmet need for family planning. That is, the effect of the underlying factors is expected to reach the ultimate dependent variable, unmet/met need through the assumed proximate variables, namely, knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions concerning family planning.
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