TABLES: Fertility Regulation Among Women in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: Contraception, Abortion or Both?

	International Family Planning Perspectives Volume 28, Number 3, September 2002
	Fertility Regulation Among Women in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire: Contraception, Abortion or Both? TABLES

TABLE 2. Percentage distribution of women in each fertility regulation subgroup, by selected characteristics
Characteristic	No fertility regulation	Contraception alone	Contraception and abortion	Abortion alone
Characteristic	(N=646)	(N=949)	(N=729)	(N=76)
No. of pregnancies
0	22.9	19.7	na	na
1	24.1	26.3	11.9	13.2
2-3	27.7	28.8	40.6	40.8
4-5	14.1	14.8	27.8	22.4
6-7	6.3	6.2	11.8	10.5
>=8	4.8	4.2	7.8	13.2
Age
<25	60.7	53.3	42.0	51.3
25-34	28.8	36.2	46.6	36.8
>=35	10.5	10.4	11.4	11.8
Education
None	70.3	32.6	17.1	55.3
Primary	22.8	35.5	35.0	27.6
>=secondary	7.0	31.9	47.9	17.1
Religion
Christian	20.7	41.5	58.6	42.1
Muslim	61.5	36.2	14.0	19.7
Other	17.8	22.2	27.4	38.2
Marital status
Unmarried†	20.1	31.9	39.1	35.5
Married	79.9	68.1	60.9	64.5
Occupation
Trader	51.7	46.5	39.2	61.8
Student	3.7	9.2	7.7	3.9
Office worker	2.9	5.9	14.0	3.9
Housewife	36.1	25.6	21.3	22.4
Artisan	5.6	12.9	17.8	7.9
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
†Includes women who never married and those who were separated, widowed or divorced. Note: na=not applicable.

FIGURE 1. Percentage distribution of women in seven age-groups by fertility regulation subgroup

TABLE 3. Odds ratios (and 95% confidence intervals) from multinomial regression analyses predicting women's reliance on contraception alone, abortion alone or both contraception and abortion to regulate fertility vs. doing nothing
Characteristic	Contraception alone (N=949)	Abortion alone (N=76)	Both contraception and abortion (N=729)
No. of pregnancies	1.07 (1.00-1.15)	1.75 (1.52-2.02)**	1.85 (1.69-2.02)**
Religion
Christian (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Muslim	0.52 (0.39-0.68)**	0.16 (0.08-0.32)**	0.17 (0.12-0.24)**
Other	0.87 (0.63-1.20)	1.13 (0.63-2.02)	0.80 (0.57-1.14)
Age
<25	0.68 (0.52-0.90)**	1.95 (1.00-3.76)*	0.98 (0.70-1.38)
25-34 (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
>=35	0.65 (0.42-0.99)*	0.11 (0.04-0.30)**	0.09 (0.05-0.16)**
Occupation
Trader (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Student	0.48 (0.26-0.90)*	0.24 (0.06-1.01)	0.36 (0.18-0.72)**
Office worker	1.14 (0.63-2.09)	0.71 (0.19-2.64)	2.51 (1.33-4.74)**
Housewife	0.70 (0.54-0.90)**	0.45 (0.24-0.83)*	0.66 (0.47-0.91)*
Artisan	1.64 (1.07-2.52)*	0.86 (0.33-2.23)	2.80 (1.75-4.47)**
Marital status
Unmarried†	1.40 (1.06-1.86)**	2.96 (1.65-5.34)**	3.13 (2.25-4.36)**
Married (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Education
None (ref)	1.00	1.00	1.00
Primary	2.71 (2.09-3.52)**	1.02 (0.56-1.86)	4.48 (3.19-6.29)**
>=secondary	10.07 (6.54-15.49)**	4.04 (1.77-9.20)**	33.81 (20.8-54.9)**
p<.05. p<.01. †Includes women who never married and those who were separated, widowed or divorced. Notes:* The group doing nothing to regulate fertility included 646 women. ref=reference category.

TABLE 1. Selected measures of contraceptive knowledge, current method use and abortion among 2,400 female health clinic clients, by selected characteristics, Abidjan, 1998
Characteristic	Knowledge		Current use		Ever had an abortion
Characteristic	Any method	Modern method	Any method	Modern method	Ever had an abortion
All women	96.4	94.6	28.1	11.6	33.5
Age
<25	94.8***	93.3***	28.6	11.9	27.8***
25-34	98.6	96.8	27.2	11.4	41.0
>=35	96.5	93.1	29.0	10.8	35.5
Education
None	92.4***	88.9***	15.4***	5.5***	18.0***
Primary	97.9	96.4	29.5	10.9	36.3
>=secondary	100.0	100.0	43.4	20.3	51.0
Religion
Christian	98.9***	97.8***	38.0***	15.7***	46.5***
Muslim	93.6	91.4	18.5	8.0	13.6
Other	96.2	93.9	25.4	9.7	41.3
Marital status
Unmarried†	98.0***	96.8***	43.2***	17.9***	41.9***
Married	95.6	93.6	21.3	8.8	29.8
Occupation
Trader	95.9***	94.0***	24.4***	9.3***	30.1***
Student	99.4	99.4	50.0	27.1	34.7
Office worker	98.3	97.2	40.6	16.7	58.3
Housewife	94.6	91.8	22.7	8.3	26.5
Artisan	94.6	98.3	34.0	15.3	46.3
***Differences were statistically significant at p<.001 (chi-square tests). †Includes women who never married and those who were separated, widowed or divorced.