Women’s Decision-Making Power on Modern Family Planning Use and Its Associated Factors in Northwest Ethiopia

Table 1

Sociodemographic characteristics of married women’s decision-making power in modern family planning use and its associated factors in Pawe town, northwest Ethiopia, 2021 ().

Variables	Count	Women decision-making power
		No	Yes
Age of women
15–24	157 (23.3)	28 (15.6)	129 (29.3)
25–29	176 (28.4)	31 (5.0)	145 (23.4)
30–34	127 (20.5)	47 (7.6)	80 (12.9)
≥35	160 (25.8)	74 (11.9)	86 (13.9)
Educational level of women
Cannot write & read	155 (25.0)	116 (64.4)	39 (8.9)
Elementary	272 (43.9)	51 (28.3)	221 (50.2)
Secondary	114 (18.4)	10 (5.6)	104 (23.6)
College/university	79 (12.7)	3 (1.7)	76 (17.3)
Religion
Orthodox	392 (63.2)	101 (16.3)	291 (46.9)
Muslim	120 (19.4)	48 (7.1)	72 (11.6)
Protestant	87 (14.0)	24 (3.9)	63 (10.2)
Catholic	21 (3.4)	7 (1.1)	14 (2.3)
Ethnicity
Amhara	418 (67.4)	125 (20.2)	293 (47.3)
Agew	59 (9.5)	13 (2.1)	46 (7.4)
Kambata	51 (8.2)	19 (3.1)	32 (5.1)
Hadiya	42 (6.8)	13 (2.1)	29 (4.7)
Oromo	28 (4.5)	6 (1.0)	22 (3.5)
Other	22 (3.5)	4 (0.6)	18 (2.9)
Women’s occupation
Housewife	421 (67.9)	153 (24.7)	268 (43.2)
Merchant	94 (15.2)	18 (2.9)	76 (12.3)
Govt employee	86 (13.9)	3 (0.5)	83 (13.4)
Daily labor	19 (3.1)	6(1.0)	13 (2.1)
Total	620	180 (29)	440 (71)
Having children
No	59 (9.5)	15 (2.4)	44 (7.4)
Yes	561 (90.5)	165 (26.6)	396 (63.9)

Other: Shinasha, Gumuz, and Tigre.