Table 2. The women’s most important reason for choosing the contraceptive method by study groups .

Reasons	categories and numbers n = 210*	categories n = 210*	continuum n = 210*	Total n = 630†
High effectiveness	94 (48.0)	89 (44.7)	103 (51.5)	286 (48.1)
Few side effects	29 (14.8)	29 (14.6)	30 (15.0)	88 (14.8)
Protection against sexually transmitted diseases	9 (4.6)	10 (5.0)	9 (4.5)	28 (4.7)
Ease of use	41 (20.9)	36 (18.1)	36 (18.0)	113 (19.0)
Prolonged effects	21 (10.7)	29 (14.6)	21 (10.5)	71 (11.9)
Others	2 (1.0)	6 (3.0)	1 (0.5)	9 (1.5)

The data are given as n (%); * 10-14 missing response; ^† 35 missing response