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RFSULTSSocio Demographic Characteristics: Table I shows the age and sex distribution of the respondents. Almost all of them were within the reproductive age groups between the ages of 15-44 (92 percent). The study population has a common language, Amharic, and a literacy rate of 98% and formal education rate of 95% .Among the ethnic groups, Amhara form 65% of the total number of the respondents, followed by Ormos, and Guragae, making 16.5% and 9% respectively. Ninety two percent of the respondents were christians and the rest 8% muslims. As shown in table 2, 62.2% of the study populations were married and 32.3% were single. Fertility Status: Table 3 shows the number of ever born children per family. The mean number of children to ever married respondents was 2.2 however, the mean number of desired children is 4.3 (table 4). Although the number of the study population is small, 10 children were reported to have been born within the last 12 months prior to the survey, showing an estimated crude birth rate of 49.7 per 1000 population of the respondents.
Attitude and practice of family planning: Among the respondents who were aware of Family planning, 86% had a positive attitude towards utilization of the methods; and 42% of them ever used Family Planning methods. Current users rate is 39%; condom was found to be the most popular , used by 37.5% of the male; while the pill was being used by 32.5% of the females. Natural FP methods (Rhythm & Breast feeding) are practised among 25% of the respondents and Intrauterine Contraceptive Device was on use by 5% of women. No statistical significant difference (P> .001) was found in knowledge, attitude and practice of Family Planning between male and female respondents. Both male and female in the age group 25-34 years (male 41% and Female 37%) are common and predominant users of contraceptives than those in the age group 15- 24 (male 23% & female 36%) and 35-44 (male 19% & female 17%). Users in the age group 45-54 (male 6% & female nil) were rare and their number negligible. Fifty eight percent of the study women and 35% of men in wedlock reported that either they or their partners were using contraceptives. Whereas, 52% of unmarried men and 22% of unmarried women were using contraceptives during the study time. Since the respondents were more or less homogenous in education, religion, ethnicity, and other socio-economic factors, categoric comparison according to these factors was found to be insignificant. Of the non-users (117 respondents who knew FP methods out of 201) 47% of them intend to use contraceptives in the future. Source of infonnation: The respondents main source of information regarding Family Planning were radio (35%), relatives (20%), health worker (17.5%), school (10.5%), TV (5.3%) and the rest from other mass media sources. As shown in table 6, the major reasons for not using contraceptives were rumours of contraceptives as being the causes of illnesses such as Cancer, Liver disease, reduced sexual desire,etc. (30%); and disagreement of spouse 19% .Other problems mentioned were unavailability (13%), high costs (8% ) and socio-cultural incompatibility with the use of contraceptives (12%), etc. Table 1:- Number of study population by age and sex in EDDC, 1990
Table 2: Number and Percentage distribution of study population by marital status in EDDC,1990
Table 3: Number and percentage distribution of study population (ever married) by number of ever born children in EDDC, 1990.
Mean number of ever born children to the respondents were 2.2. Table 4: Percentage distribution of study population by number of children desired in EDDC, 1990.
Mean number of children desired to (201) the respondents were (100) 4.3 Table 5: Number and percentage distribution of study population by family planning knowledg, by sex EDDC, 1990
Table 6: Percentage distribution of study population by reasons for not using and not intended to use contraception among non-users and discontinuers in EDDC, 1990.
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