Rural women's socio-demographic and cultural determinants on contraceptive uptake in The Gambia: community-based cross-sectional study

Table 3.

Results of Binary Logistic Regression analysis for FP uptake among reproductive-age women by Socio-demographicfactors


Predictors	B (regression coefficient)	Adjusted Odds Ratio	95% C.I. for aOR		P-value

			Lower	Upper

Age of Respondents	0.092	1.097	1.019	1.181	0.014*
Women who can read and write
Yes	0.967	2.629	0.919	7.521	0.071
No (Ref)		1
Preferred number of children	-0.147	0.863	0.693	1.076	0.190
Reasons for using FP in the future
Spacing	-1.139	0.320	0.133	0.771	0.011*
Limiting (Ref)		1

Ref=Reference category, R2=15.4% - 21.3%, CI= Confidence Interval, * Statistical significance p<0.05