Impact of Socio-Demographic Factors on Contraceptive Use among Ever-Married Women of Reproductive Age: A Cross-Sectional Study Using the National Survey
Contraception is one of the exigent factors in fertility change. Bangladesh achieved outstanding increase use of contraception in recent survey. The aim of the study is to determine the impact of socio-demographic factors on contraceptive use among ever-married women of child bearing years in Bangladesh using the secondary data obtained from (BDHS 2014). To examine the association between the outcome variable and independent variables chi-squared test was applied. Binary logistic regression was conducted for assess of net effect of independents variable on contraceptive use in this year 2014. Finding of the study observed that current age, place of residence, religion, husband education, division, sex of household head, mass media exposure, respondent current working status, and age at first marriage are important determinants of current use of contraception in Bangladesh. The AIDS and STI are also significant determinants on contraceptive method according to the BDHS 2014. The results of the study strongly suggested that to increase the education level among poor people, particularly among women in Bangladesh. Government should accord to the female education by dint of campaign the negative effect of early marriage in their reproductive life and ensure sexually transmitted disease is decrease on the basis of increasing modern effective contraceptive method for all women in their reproductive period of life.
4A, AIDS, STI, Communicable Disease, Sustainable Development Goal 3 (SDG3), Modern Method, Multicollinearity, FP
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