Table 3 Distribution of adolescent girls aged 15–19 years using contraception by background characteristics, 1996–2013/14
Current Contraceptive Use | 1996 | 2001/2 | 2007 | 2013/14 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
% | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | |
Marital Status | ||||||||
Never in union | 4.3 | 1435 | 4.7 | 1307 | 6.8 | 1302 | 5.6 | 3058 |
Married/Living with Partner | 17.0 | 416 | 24.3 | 449 | 28.5 | 270 | 36.4 | 572 |
Widowed/Separated/Divorced | 8.7 | 46 | 10.0 | 50 | 34.6 | 26 | 19.6 | 56 |
P-Value | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | ||||
Province | ||||||||
Central | 5.3 | 170 | 5.4 | 223 | 6.6 | 152 | 9.8 | 327 |
Copperbelt | 6.5 | 309 | 11.1 | 235 | 6.3 | 190 | 6.7 | 417 |
Eastern | 9.0 | 244 | 7.3 | 192 | 13.8 | 196 | 11.0 | 472 |
Luapula | 2.1 | 242 | 13.2 | 159 | 3.3 | 152 | 5.7 | 279 |
Lusaka | 8.0 | 274 | 15.7 | 204 | 8.5 | 224 | 12.7 | 434 |
Muchinga¶ | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7.9 | 340 |
Northern | 9.3 | 204 | 7.6 | 288 | 7.1 | 169 | 9.1 | 352 |
North western | 20.2 | 114 | 11.1 | 198 | 15.3 | 157 | 12.9 | 381 |
Southern | 4.9 | 205 | 8.4 | 166 | 8.9 | 191 | 13.5 | 377 |
Western | 9.6 | 220 | 9.2 | 141 | 28.7 | 167 | 15.6 | 307 |
P-Value | 0.000 | 0.014 | 0.000 | 0.000 | ||||
Residence | ||||||||
Urban | 8.1 | 799 | 11.4 | 639 | 10.0 | 809 | 10.1 | 1850 |
Rural | 7.3 | 1183 | 8.8 | 1167 | 11.8 | 789 | 11.1 | 1836 |
P-Value | 0.476 | 0.075 | 0.255 | 0.297 | ||||
Highest Education Level | ||||||||
Education | 5.8 | 174 | 10.1 | 158 | 10.1 | 69 | 7.3 | 69 |
Primary | 7.4 | 1254 | 9.2 | 1073 | 13.0 | 756 | 11.6 | 1428 |
Secondary & Higher | 8.7 | 554 | 10.6 | 575 | 8.9 | 773 | 10.0 | 2197 |
P-Value | 0.407 | 0.656 | 0.040 | 0.199 | ||||
Literacy* | ||||||||
Cannot read at all | – | 9.9 | 765 | 15.0 | 386 | 12.5 | 750 | |
Able to read only par | – | 11.2 | 188 | 9.9 | 151 | 9.2 | 283 | |
Able to read whole se | – | 9.1 | 834 | 9.7 | 1032 | 10.1 | 2621 | |
P-Value | 0.657 | 0.015 | 0.121 | |||||