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44 | PMA2014 ETHIOPIA DETAILED INDICATOR REPORT
Method Chosen By Self Or Jointly
Following quality counseling by the provider, contraceptive users should be able to decide on the
type of method they will use. This indicator is based on responses by women regarding who made
the final decision about the method obtained at the last visit to a family planning provider—the
woman herself, the provider, her partner, the woman and the provider, or the woman and her
partner. As a measure of service quality, the preferred responses are that the woman alone or her
and her provider or partner made the final decision.
Forty-four percent of users decided on their most recent contraceptive method themselves and
another 35.5% decided with their partner or provider. Older women ages 45 to 49 and unmarried
sexually active women were the most likely to decide themselves (55.6% and 70.4%, respectively)
and women in the lowest wealth quintile (41.2%) were most likely to decide together with their
partner or provider. Women in the Tigray region were most likely to decide themselves (69.0%),
and women in the Amhara region were the most likely to decide together with their partners
or providers (45.4%).
Figure F8. Who decided method obtained among all users in the past 12 months (n=1,915)
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Provider alone, or
partner, or other
20.5%
Jointly with partner or
provider 35.5%
Self 44.0%