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Table 1 Socio-economic and demographic profiles of women of childbearing age in Haiti

From: Knowledge of the ovulatory cycle and its determinants among women of childbearing age in Haiti: a population-based study using the 2016/2017 Haitian Demographic Health Survey

Socio-economic and demographic characteristics

All women of childbearing age

N

Percentage

Age

Less than 25 years

6012

41.8

25–29

2258

15.7

30–34

2016

14.0

35–39

1650

11.5

40 and above

2435

16.9

Place of residence

Urban

6731

46.8

Rural

7640

53.2

Region

Aire Métropolitaine de Port-au-Prince

3632

25.3

Reste-Ouest

2285

15.9

Grand Sud

1708

11.9

Grand Nord

2778

19.3

Artibonite

2090

14.5

Centre

918

6.4

Grand'Anse/Nippes

959

6.7

Wealth index

Poor

4596

32.0

Middle

2772

19.3

Rich

7003

48.7

Currently working

Yes

8091

56.3

No

6280

43.7

Religion

No religion

1134

7.9

Christian

13,055

90.8

Voodoo or others

182

1.3

Education level

Primary or less

6258

43.5

Secondary

7068

49.2

Higher

1045

7.3

Marital status

Never in union

5823

40.5

In union

7402

51.5

Widowed/divorced/separated

1146

8.0

Number of living children

No children

5990

41.7

1–2

4586

31.9

3 or more

3795

26.4

Husband/partner's education level

Primary or less

3558

24.8

Secondary

3051

21.2

Higher

693

4.8

Don’t know

101

0.7

No partner

6969

48.5

Knowledge of any contraceptive method

Knows modern method

14,351

99.9

Knows no method

20

0.1

Current use by method type

No method

10,909

75.9

Traditional method

263

1.8

Modern method

3199

22.3

Exposure to FP messages (medias)

Yes

3929

27.3

No

10,442

72.7

Visited by fieldworker in last 12 months

Yes

991

6.9

No

13,380

93.1

Total

14,371

100.0