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

Table 5

Multinomial logistic regression model of women with preference of contraception and with covariate effect.

	Modern method			Natural method			Sterilization
	Estimate	Std. error	OR	Estimate	Std. error	OR	Estimate	Std. error	OR
Intercept	-2.415	0.379	0.089	-10.498	22.309	0.000	-13.378	0.244	0.000
Age
25-34	0.143	0.057	1.153	0.135	0.068	1.144	2.515	0.321	12.365
35-44	-0.217	0.060	0.805	0.012	0.070	1.012	3.134	0.321	22.957
Above 44	-1.182	0.072	0.307	-0.683	0.078	0.505	2.868	0.322	17.595
Region
Urban	0.165	0.032	1.179	0.339	0.034	1.404	0.000	0.039	1.000
Language
English	1.826	1.166	6.209	2.499	1.124	12.168	-5.729	38.548	0.003
Baluchi	-0.268	0.097	0.765	-1.719	0.180	0.179	-1.305	0.175	0.271
Punjabi	-0.136	0.062	0.873	0.099	0.058	1.105	0.049	0.063	1.050
Pushto	0.182	0.054	1.200	0.229	0.060	1.257	-0.783	0.086	0.457
Sariaki	-0.550	0.098	0.577	-0.349	0.091	0.705	-0.022	0.087	0.979
Sindhi	-0.664	0.071	0.515	-1.093	0.078	0.335	0.111	0.073	1.118
Other	-0.378	0.056	0.685	-0.369	0.058	0.691	-0.446	0.076	0.640
Province
KPK	0.010	0.060	1.010	-0.544	0.064	0.580	-0.749	0.077	0.473
Sindh	-0.008	0.067	0.992	-0.186	0.066	0.830	-0.103	0.073	0.902
Balochistan	-0.637	0.071	0.529	-1.086	0.076	0.338	-1.063	0.089	0.345
GB	0.582	0.068	1.790	0.636	0.067	1.889	-0.452	0.091	0.636
ICT	0.150	0.063	1.162	-0.200	0.065	0.819	-0.168	0.072	0.845
FATA	-0.451	0.083	0.637	-0.728	0.088	0.483	-1.286	0.148	0.276
AJK	-0.350	0.059	0.705	-0.429	0.058	0.651	-0.648	0.067	0.523
Education level
Primary	0.212	0.045	1.236	-0.008	0.047	0.992	0.145	0.050	1.156
Secondary	0.274	0.037	1.315	0.046	0.038	1.047	-0.016	0.044	0.984
Higher	0.447	0.043	1.564	0.280	0.045	1.323	0.045	0.053	1.046
Number of children
Among 1 to 3	1.239	0.374	3.452	9.059	22.309	8596	8.708	0.085	6051
Among 4 to 6	1.696	0.375	5.454	9.794	22.309	17933	9.876	0.085	19465
Above 7	1.686	0.376	5.396	9.854	22.309	19036	9.909	0.088	20103
Working
Yes	0.153	0.041	1.165	0.205	0.042	1.227	0.219	0.042	1.244
Wealth index
Low class	-0.470	0.039	0.625	-0.430	0.042	0.651	-0.593	0.048	0.552
High class	0.087	0.039	1.091	0.233	0.041	1.262	0.218	0.046	1.244