TITLE:
Determinants of Adolescent Fertility among Rural Women of Ethiopia
AUTHORS:
Anteneh Mulugeta Eyasu
KEYWORDS:
Adolescent Fertility, Binary Logistic Model, DHS, Odds Ratio
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.3 No.3,
March
30,
2016
ABSTRACT: The main objective of this study is to identify the factors that contribute to adolescent childbearing and to
examine to what extent these factors influence adolescent fertility of women in
rural Ethiopia. This study was based on 2510 adolescent fertility data of rural
women aged 15 - 19 years that was extracted from the original women data of the
2011 Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS). Descriptive analysis, chi-square
test and binary logistic analysis were employed. Hence, based on the result,
religion, current contraceptive method use, woman educational level, wealth
index were the most contributing risk factors for adolescent childbearing of
women in rural Ethiopia. The risk of having children in adolescent years was greater
for not educated women than those who had secondary or higher education. In
addition, the chance of having a child in adolescent years for poor households’
women was higher than that of their counterparts. Hence strengthening poor
households by designing different strategies can have better life and good decision
maker about their adolescent childbearing.