Partner support and women's contraceptive use: insight from urban poor communities in Accra, Ghana

BMC Women's Health

Table 1 Percentage distribution of socio-demographic characteristics of respondents

Variables	Frequency	Percentage	Variables	Frequency	Percentage
Partner support in contraceptives			Household wealth quintile of woman
No	270	17.1	Poorest	104	6.6
Yes	1308	82.9	Poorer	313	19.8
			Middle	569	36.1
Age of woman			Richer	462	29.3
16–19	15	1.0	Richest	130	8.2
20–24	165	10.5	Ethnicity of woman
25–29	347	22.0	Akan	563	35.7
30–34	432	27.4	Ga/Adangbe	501	31.7
35–39	357	22.6	Ewe	282	17.9
40–44	262	16.5	Mole-Dagbani	92	5.8
Educational level attained by a woman			Other Ethnic groups	140	8.9
No education	105	6.7	Health decision-making
Primary	251	15.9	Respondents only	605	38.3
Junior High	696	44.1	Husband/partner only	178	11.3
Secondary	329	20.8	Husband/partner jointly	795	50.4
Higher	197	12.5	Received any family planning counselling at a health facility in the past two years
Religion of woman			Yes	585	37.1
Pentecostal/Charismatic	850	53.9	No	993	62.9
Protestants	172	10.9	Partner literacy
Orthodox	85	5.3	Yes	1480	93.8
Other Christians	279	17.7	No	98	6.2
Moslem	157	10.0	Total	1578	100.0
Other	35	2.2
Employment status of women			Children Ever Born (Parity)	Min (max)	Mean (std dev)
Unemployed	188	11.9		0 (11)	2.37 (1.44)
Employed	1390	88.1
Total	1578	100.0

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