Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of pregnant women in Arsi Negele Woreda, West Arsi Zone, Ethiopia, 2017
Variable | Frequency | Percent | Unintended pregnancy | p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
N (%) | ||||
Age | ||||
 17–34 | 516 | 80.1 | 31 (6) | < 0.001 |
 35 and above | 128 | 19.9 | 97 (75.8) | |
Age at first pregnancy | ||||
 Less than 18 | 81 | 12.6 | 32 (39.5) | 0.703 |
 18 and above | 563 | 87.4 | 235 (41.7) | |
Marital status | ||||
 Married | 613 | 95.2 | 246 (40.1) | 0.005 |
 Single | 14 | 2.2 | 11 (78.6) | |
 Divorced/widowed | 17 | 2.6 | 10 (58.8) | |
Women educational status | ||||
 No formal education | 100 | 15.5 | 47 (47) | 0.962 |
 Primary | 523 | 81.2 | 206 (39.4) | |
 Secondary and above | 21 | 3.3 | 14 (66.7) | |
Husband educational status | ||||
 No formal education | 54 | 8.4 | 19 (35.2) | 0.688 |
 Primary education | 562 | 87.3 | 238 (42.3) | |
 Secondary and above | 28 | 4.3 | 10 (35.7) | |
Religion | ||||
 Orthodox | 131 | 20.3 | 54 (41.2) | 0.884 |
 Muslim | 361 | 56.1 | 150 (41.6) | |
 Protestant | 108 | 16.8 | 47 (43.5) | |
 Catholic | 33 | 5.1 | 11 (33.3) | |
 Others | 11 | 1.7 | 5 (45.5) | |
Ethnicity | ||||
 Oromo | 260 | 40.4 | 113 (43.5) | 0.402 |
 Amhara | 243 | 37.7 | 90 (37) | |
 Tigire | 78 | 12.1 | 39 (50) | |
 Keffa | 45 | 7 | 17 (37.8) | |
 Woliata | 14 | 2.2 | 6 (42.9) | |
 Others | 4 | 0.6 | 2 (50) | |