Table 4. Use of modern Family Planning methods in baseline and endline groups of married adolescent girls and young women.
| Characteristics | Baseline | Endline |
Change |
P-Value |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total number (N = 290) |
Number of FP use (%) | Total number (N = 212) |
Number of FP use (%) | |||
| District | N (%) | N (%) | % | |||
| Dailekh | 81 | 22 (27%) | 58 | 21 (36%) | 9% | 0.001† |
| Jajarkot | 66 | 25 (38%) | 53 | 16 (30%) | -8% | 0.101 |
| Kalikot | 69 | 16 (23%) | 50 | 15 (30%) | 7% | 0.001† |
| Surkhet | 74 | 24 (32%) | 51 | 29 (57%) | 24% | 0.371 |
| Age Group | ||||||
| 15–19 | 52 | 14 (27%) | 48 | 18 (38%) | 11% | 0.001† |
| 20–24 | 238 | 73 (31%) | 164 | 63 (38%) | 8% | 0.003† |
| Parity | ||||||
| Never given birth | 53 | 6 (11%) | 29 | 5 (17%) | 6% | <0.001† |
| 1 birth | 113 | 34 (30%) | 83 | 30 (36%) | 6% | 0.001† |
| 2+ births | 124 | 47 (38%) | 100 | 46 (46%) | 8% | 0.148 |
| School status | ||||||
| In school | 250 | 73 (29%) | 182 | 66 (36%) | 7% | 0.001† |
| Out of school | 40 | 14 (35%) | 30 | 15 (50%) | 15% | 0.192 |
| Education | ||||||
| Less than grade 8 | 94 | 24 (26%) | 53 | 23 (43%) | 17% | 0.005† |
| Grade 8 and above | 196 | 63 (32%) | 159 | 58 (36%) | 4% | 0.002† |
| Ethnicity | ||||||
| Brahmin/Chhettri | 142 | 50 (35%) | 111 | 36 (32%) | -3% | 0.001† |
| Dalit | 112 | 29 (26%) | 80 | 35 (44%) | 18% | 0.007† |
| Janajati | 24 | 5 (21%) | 14 | 7 (50%) | 29% | 0.013† |
| Thakuri/Dashnami | 12 | 3 (25%) | 7 | 3 (43%) | 18% | 0.004† |
| Wealth | ||||||
| Lowest | 104 | 26 (25%) | 31 | 13 (42%) | 17% | 0.002† |
| Middle | 103 | 28 (27%) | 57 | 21 (37%) | 10% | 0.001† |
| Highest | 83 | 33 (40%) | 124 | 47 (38%) | -2% | 0.033† |
P-value is Exact McNemar significance probability value.
† Significant at p<0.05.