Family planning services quality as a determinant of use of IUD in Egypt

Table 2 Distribution of the sample of married women age 15–49 in the original sample and in the matched sample by selected characteristics, Egypt SPA 2002; Egypt IDHS 2003

Background characteristic	Total sample		Matched sample
	N	Percent	N	Percent
Status of contraceptive use
Use IUD, public sources	2035	24.1	1,645	24.4
Use IUD, private sources	1060	12.6	862	12.8
Use other methods	1685	20.0	1,327	19.7
Not use contraceptive	3664	43.4	2,901	43.1
Quality of family planning index
Low	-	-	2,171	32.2
Middle	-	-	1,998	29.7
High	-	-	2,566	38.1
Distance to the nearest facility
< 4 km	-	-	3,774	56.0
≥ 4 km	-	-	2,961	44.0
Type of facility
Government hospital	-	-	815	12.1
MCH/Urban health unit	-	-	938	13.9
Rural health unit	-	-	2,134	31.7
Mobile/Health office	-	-	1,342	19.9
NGO	-	-	1,506	22.4
Age
15–19	332	3.9	274	4.1
20–24	1,343	15.9	1,080	16.0
25–29	1,703	20.2	1,383	20.5
30–34	1,346	15.9	1,056	15.7
35–39	1,462	17.3	1,156	17.2
40–44	1,205	14.3	954	14.2
45–49	1,054	12.5	832	12.4
Number of living children
0–2	3,820	45.2	3,080	45.7
3+	4,625	54.8	3,655	54.3
Education
No education	3,080	36.5	2,409	35.8
Some primary	1,053	12.5	869	12.9
Primary complete	1,190	14.1	936	13.9
Secondary/higher	3,122	37.0	2,522	37.4
Wealth status¹
Lowest	1,525	18.1	1,187	17.6
Second	1,621	19.2	1,283	19.0
Middle	1,742	20.6	1,420	21.1
Fourth	1,793	21.2	1,401	20.8
Highest	1,765	20.9	1,444	21.4
Residence
Urban	3,589	42.5	2,859	42.5
Rural	4,856	57.5	3,876	57.6
Total	8,445	100.0	6,735	100.0

There are 7,367 married women from clusters that match with a facility within 10 km from cluster's center, but only 6,735 of them match with a facility that offer family planning services
¹The Wealth Index measures a household's relative economic status based largely on household ownership of durable assets. For details on the calculation of the index, see [20].

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