Table 1 Characteristics and percentage distribution of women in Ethiopia
Characteristics and their categories | Percentage distribution of the surveys | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
EDHS 2000 | EDHS 2005 | EDHS 2011 | EDHS 2016 | |
N = 2146 | N = 2051 | N = 3368 | N = 4740 | |
Maternal age | ||||
  < 20 years | 6.6 | 5.7 | 4.7 | 5.3 |
 20–34 years | 69.0 | 71.6 | 71.9 | 73.1 |
  ≥ 35 years | 24.4 | 22.7 | 23.4 | 21.6 |
Household head | ||||
 Female | 17.6 | 14.9 | 18.2 | 14.6 |
Residence | ||||
 Rural | 71.7 | 78.5 | 73.1 | 81.6 |
Women educational level | ||||
 No education | 64.5 | 62.3 | 52.9 | 53.9 |
 Primary education | 21.2 | 23.1 | 37.2 | 33.2 |
 Secondary & above | 14.3 | 14.6 | 9.9 | 12.9 |
Husband educational level | ||||
 No education | 48.0 | 41.5 | 37.2 | 40.1 |
 Primary education | 28.4 | 33.2 | 45.9 | 40.8 |
 Secondary & above | 23.6 | 25.3 | 16.9 | 19.1 |
Maternal occupation status | ||||
 Not working | 34.1 | 64.3 | 41.5 | 50.7 |
Husband occupation status | ||||
 Not working | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 5.8 |
Reading newspapers | ||||
 No | 84.0 | 85.3 | 83.2 | 90.0 |
Listening to a radio | ||||
 No | 56.8 | 49.2 | 37.3 | 33.8 |
Watching television | ||||
 No | 84.6 | 78.9 | 52.4 | 74.7 |
Ever told about pregnancy complications | ||||
 No | 72.7 | 68.3 | 79.7 | 55.0 |
Ever had terminated pregnancy | ||||
 No | 83.6 | 89.9 | 89.2 | 90.8 |
Wantedness of pregnancy | ||||
 Wanted then | 56.9 | 60.3 | 68.0 | 76.0 |
 Wanted later | 21.3 | 21.5 | 21.7 | 17.3 |
 Wanted no more | 21.8 | 18.2 | 10.3 | 6.7 |
Cesarean delivery | ||||
 No | 97.8 | 96.3 | 96.0 | 96.5 |
Parity | ||||
 1 | 37.7 | 40.0 | 41.1 | 41.2 |
 2–4 | 37.7 | 34.3 | 36.8 | 36.4 |
  ≥ 5 | 24.6 | 25.7 | 22.1 | 22.4 |
Family size | ||||
  ≤ 2 | 2.5 | 1.9 | 3.3 | 2.1 |
 3–4 | 28.3 | 30.4 | 29.3 | 33.1 |
  ≥ 5 | 69.2 | 67.7 | 67.4 | 64.8 |
Ever use contraceptive | ||||
 No | 81.6 | 75.3 | 61.6 | 58.1 |
 Region |  |  |  |  |
 Tigray | 9.1 | 8.7 | 10.1 | 10.1 |
 Afar | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
 Amhara | 19.3 | 23.8 | 23.7 | 23.0 |
 Oromia | 39.5 | 33.4 | 36.4 | 33.8 |
 Somali | 0.6 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 2.5 |
 Benshangul-Gumuz | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.2 |
 SNNP | 22.1 | 24.6 | 9.7 | 23.4 |
 Gambla | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.3 |
 Harari | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
 Addis Ababa | 5.6 | 0.5 | 5.4 | 4.0 |
 Dire Dawa | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.6 |