Table 2. Odds of a woman using a long-term method of contraception^a when wanting to space rather than limit childbearing and for those in the richest versus than the poorest wealth quintile, by country and Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) year.

Country	DHS year	Wanting to spaceb OR (95% CI)	Richest wealth quintilec OR (95% CI)
Cameroon	2004	0.24 (0.13–0.41)	1.20 (0.41–3.53)
Cameroon	1998	0.11 (0.04–0.31)	4.12 (1.04–16.30)
Ethiopia	2005	0.66 (0.36–1.23)	1.53 (0.17–13.69)
Ethiopia	2000	0.23 (0.09–0.62)	2.59 (0.39–17.35)
Ghana	2003	0.34 (0.16–0.73)	2.62 (0.80–8.58)
Ghana	1998	0.38 (0.18–0.82)	0.53 (0.18–1.53)
Kenya	2003	0.57 (0.39–0.83)	3.52 (1.67–7.39)
Kenya	1998	0.48 (0.32–0.72)	2.74 (1.52–4.94)
Madagascar	2003–04	0.39 (0.13–1.15)	2.18 (0.50–9.56)
Madagascar	1997	0.38 (0.19–0.77)	0.83 (0.27–2.62)
Malawi	2004	0.09 (0.05–0.15)	2.05 (1.11–3.80)
Malawi	2000	0.03 (0.01–0.07)	1.54 (0.90–2.65)
Mozambique	2003	0.09 (0.03–0.22)	3.03 (0.82–11.22)
Mozambique	1997	0.16 (0.06–0.41)	1.24 (0.35–4.39)
Namibia	2006–07	0.06 (0.03–0.14)	3.30 (1.44–7.58)
Namibia	2000	0.16 (0.09–0.29)	2.19 (0.61–7.80)
Rwanda	2005	0.34 (0.16–0.70)	1.34 (0.49–3.65)
Rwanda	2000	0.18 (0.07–0.44)	4.39 (0.79–24.26)
Senegal	2005	0.49 (0.24–0.99)	1.94 (0.69–5.43)
Senegal	1997	0.29 (0.14–0.61)	2.86 (0.44–18.77)
Uganda	2006	0.13 (0.06–0.28)	0.78 (0.38–1.61)
Uganda	2000–01	0.13 (0.06–0.29)	1.43 (0.59–3.47)
United Republic of Tanzania	2004–05	0.24 (0.14–0.39)	2.14 (1.03–4.44)
United Republic of Tanzania	1999	0.14 (0.05–0.46)	1.07 (0.24–4.77)
Zambia	2001–02	0.14 (0.05–0.40)	6.35 (1.93–20.95)
Zambia	1996	0.09 (0.03–0.23)	6.37 (2.10–19.37)

CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio.

^a The samples comprise only women who were using a method of contraception at the time of the survey. The model was adjusted for women’s residence, education, age, parity, marital status and complex survey design.

^b The reference category is the intention to limit childbearing.

^c The reference category is the poorest wealth quintile.