Couple’s concordance and discordance in household decision-making and married women’s use of modern contraceptives in Bangladesh

Table 3 Bivariate logistic regression analysis of the association between couple’s decision-making arrangement and wife’s current use of modern contraceptive

Decision-making items	Wives		Husbands		Couples
	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Who decides about making major household purchases?
Jointly (Reference)
Wife Only	1.06	[0.74–1.53]	0.71	[0.46–1.10]	1.03	[0.30–3.58]
Husband Only	0.75***	[0.61–0.91]	0.87	[0.71–1.06]	0.76*	[0.55–1.05]
Others	0.62***	[0.49–0.78]	0.74***	[0.60–0.92]	0.62***	[0.47–0.84]
Disagree					0.79**	[0.65–0.96]
Who decides about making daily household purchases?
Jointly (Reference)
Wife Only	1.03	[0.86–1.23]	0.92	[0.70–1.21]	0.96	[0.62–1.48]
Husband Only	0.80**	[0.65–0.99]	0.83**	[0.69–0.99]	0.73*	[0.52–1.01]
Others	0.62***	[0.49–0.78]	0.64***	[0.50–0.82]	0.59***	[0.43–0.81]
Disagree					0.97	[0.77–1.22]
Who decides about visits to your family or relatives?
Jointly (Reference)
Wife Only	1.09	[0.83–1.44]	0.92	[0.63–1.35]	1.80	[0.62–5.25]
Husband Only	0.77***	[0.63–0.93]	0.87	[0.71–1.07]	0.73**	[0.53–1.00]
Others	0.59***	[0.46–0.76]	0.72***	[0.57–0.92]	0.56***	[0.41–0.77]
Disagree					0.93	[0.77–1.12]

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