DETERMINANTS OF FAMILY PLANING PRACTICE AMONG WOMEN OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE IN ETHIOPIA

Abstract

Family planning is the practice to prevent or avoid unwanted birth and control the spacing between child birth to help create a small and planned family. It is the best way to control the rapidly and massively growing population. This study aimed to identify factors that affect women’s family planning practice in Ethiopia. In this study the data source is EDHS 2016 with a total of 5937 women of age 15-49 years. In this study 5929 all women of reproductive age are considered. Descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression are used for statistical analysis. The descriptive result revealed that about 34.9% of the women practiced family planning while 65.1 % did not practice family planning. The logistic regression analysis revealed age of a women, marital status, place of residence, region, religion group, number of living children, women’s health facility told FP, and women’s heard FP on TV were found to be significant predictors for women’s family planning practice. Finally, this study recommended that since women exposed to FP information in any way were more likely to practice FP the government and non-government organization involved with FP should enhance information and communication activities regarding family planning services using mass media, family planning workers and health centers and government should give more emphasis to improve the FP service delivery in rural areas.