Fertility decision and its associated factors in Sub-Saharan Africa: a multilevel multinomial logistic regression analysis

Autor: Achamyeleh Birhanu Teshale, Misganaw Gebrie Worku, Getayeneh Antehunegn Tesema
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: BMC Women's Health, Vol 22, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1472-6874
DOI: 10.1186/s12905-022-01920-w
Popis: Abstract Background Fertility desire is one of the predictors of contraceptive behavior and fertility-related outcomes. However, information is scarce on individual and community-level factors of women’s fertility decisions in sub-Saharan Africa. Objective To assess fertility decisions and their associated factors in Sub-Saharan Africa. Methods The 35 Sub-Saharan African country’s most recent demographic and health surveys (DHS) data conducted from 2008 to 2020 was used. A total of 284,744 (weighted) married women were used for analysis. The proportion of fertility decisions with their 95%CI was estimated. To assess the factors associated with fertility decisions, both random effect and fixed effect analyses were conducted. In the fixed analysis, particularly in the multivariable analysis, adjusted relative risk ratio (aRRR) with its 95% confidence interval (CI) was reported and variables with a p-value
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