Table 2.
Women’s reasons for desiring family planning as indicated by male and female respondents
| Reasons women may desire family planning | Ibadan | Kaduna | TOTAL | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | Females | Males | Females | ||||||||||||||
| om | um | ym | Uf | Ofc | Yfc | yfn | ofn | Om | ym | Um | uf | yfn | ym | yfc | Ofn | ||
| Child spacing | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 26 |
| Children development | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 |
| Family Economy | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 25 |
| Family decision | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Health problems | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 16 |
| Imitate friends | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Others reasons | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Personal Career development | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Satisfy male partner sexual desires | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Want no more child | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| TOTALS: | 1 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 106 |
Keys: om = old married males, ym = young married males, um = unmarried males, uf = unmarried females, ofc = older married females current users, yfc = young married females current users, ofn = old married females non-users, yfn = young married females non-users.
Note: The numbers in the cells (0–5) are the number of quotations from each of the FGD sessions per coded themes.