Impact of Sociocultural Factors on Contraceptive Use: A Case Study of Pakistan

Table 2

Logistic regression of contraceptives used with covariates.

	Estimate	Std. error	OR	Lower CI	Upper CI	Pr (>)
Intercept	-2.270	0.376	0.103	0.046	0.203	<0.001
Age	Reference category “15-24”
25-34	0.217	0.048	1.242	1.132	1.364	<0.001
35-44	0.144	0.049	1.155	1.049	1.273	0.003
Above 44	-0.449	0.054	0.638	0.574	0.710	<0.001
Region	Reference category “Urban”
Urban	0.182	0.024	1.199	1.144	1.257	<0.001
Language	Reference category “Urdu”
Baluchi	-0.785	0.080	0.456	0.390	0.533	0.014
English	1.927	1.070	6.866	1.218	128.479	<0.001
Other	-0.394	0.042	0.675	0.621	0.732	<0.001
Punjabi	0.018	0.044	1.018	0.934	1.110	0.682
Pushto	0.044	0.043	1.045	0.961	1.136	0.303
Sariaki	-0.285	0.063	0.752	0.664	0.850	<0.001
Sindhi	-0.455	0.051	0.634	0.574	0.701	<0.001
Province	Reference category “Punjab”
AJK	-0.456	0.043	0.634	0.582	0.690	<0.001
Balochistan	-0.917	0.053	0.400	0.360	0.443	<0.001
FATA	-0.700	0.064	0.496	0.438	0.563	<0.001
GB	0.395	0.052	1.484	1.340	1.644	<0.001
ICT	-0.063	0.049	0.939	0.854	1.033	0.017
KPK	-0.356	0.046	0.700	0.640	0.767	<0.001
Sindh	-0.102	0.050	0.903	0.819	0.996	<0.001
Education	Reference category “Un-educated”
Higher	0.294	0.032	1.342	1.260	1.429	<0.001
Primary	0.125	0.032	1.134	1.064	1.208	<0.001
Secondary	0.124	0.027	1.132	1.073	1.194	<0.001
Child	Reference category “Don t have”
Above 7	2.540	0.374	12.683	6.472	28.686	<0.001
Among 1 to 3	1.809	0.373	6.103	3.120	13.784	<0.001
Among 4 to 6	2.512	0.374	12.332	6.302	27.861	<0.001
Working	Reference category “No”
Yes	0.198	0.030	1.219	1.151	1.292	<0.001
Wealth index	Reference category “Middle class family”
High class	0.170	0.030	1.185	1.118	1.256	<0.001
Low class	-0.485	0.029	0.616	0.581	0.652	<0.001

Note: value <0.000, value <0.001, value <0.01, ⁺ value <0.05, standard error, confidence interval (CI) of the estimates, and odds ratio (OR).