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Table 5.12 Number of children at first use of contraception
Percent distribution of women who have ever used contraception by number of living children at the time of first
use of contraception and median number of children at first use, according to current age, Ethiopia 2000
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Median
number of
children at
Number of living children at time of first use of contraception
first use
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of contra-
Current age 0 1 2 3 4+ Missing Total Number ception
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15-19
20-24
25-29
30-34
35-39
40-44
45-49
73.1 23.3 3.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0 137 0.0
42.0 38.0 17.5 2.4 0.0 0.0 100.0 410 0.2
29.8 26.8 19.9 13.5 8.6 1.5 100.0 518 0.7
12.6 20.2 18.7 18.0 30.5 0.0 100.0 327 1.9
5.9 14.7 20.7 16.2 42.5 0.0 100.0 340 2.5
5.5 8.9 10.3 11.4 64.0 0.0 100.0 216 4.3
2.9 4.6 11.4 14.2 65.3 1.5 100.0 108 4.9
Total
24.5 22.7 16.8 11.4 24.2 0.5 100.0 2,056 1.2
5.9 SOURCE OF FAMILY PLANNING METHODS
Information on sources of modern contraceptives is useful for family planning managers and
implementers. Women who reported using a modern method of contraception at the time of the survey
were asked where they obtained the method the last time. To ensure accuracy in reporting, supervisors
and editors were asked to verify the source from the written response.
Table 5.13 shows that more than three-fourths of current users (78 percent) obtain methods from
the public sector, 16 percent from the private medical sector, and 6 percent from other private sources.
The most important source of contraceptives in the public sector is the government health center,
providing methods to 36 percent of women. The public sector is the leading source of injectables and
the pill, distributed mainly through government health centers (50 percent and 32 percent, respectively).
Rural health centers also play a major role in distributing contraceptives, used by more than one in four
users of modern methods. Female sterilization is mainly performed in government hospitals (85 percent),
while two in five condom users get their supply from other private sources, predominantly shops (23
percent).
Women who were currently using a method were also asked to estimate the time taken to reach
the place they last obtained contraceptives. Table 5.14 shows the time taken to source by users of the
pill, injectables, and condoms, 1 by place of residence and region. On average, condom users take the
least time to access their source (10 minutes), while pill and injectable users take about half an hour.
As expected, urban users are generally closer to their source of contraceptives than rural users, with rural
users taking twice as long as urban users to reach their source. Injectables are least accessible in rural
areas with users taking nearly one and a half hours to their source. Women residing in the Amhara
Region take the longest time to reach their source. On average, it takes about half an hour to reach a
source of contraceptives among women living in Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa, where the population is
more urbanized.
1 A statistically meaningful breakdown could not be obtained for the IUD, vaginal methods, and male and female
sterilization due to the small numbers of users.
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