Table 1. Descriptives of FPM use according to socio-demographic characteristics among ever-married Pakistani women.
| PDHS 2006–7 (n = 9177) | PDHS 2012–13 (n = 13588) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urban | Rural | Urban | Rural | |||||||||
| FPM use | FPM use | |||||||||||
| Yes | No | p-value* | Yes | No | p-value* | Yes | No | p-value* | Yes | No | p-value* | |
| Educational level n (%) | ||||||||||||
| No education | 490 (32.0) | 1041 (68.0) | < 0.01 | 876 (18.8) | 3784 (81.2) | < 0.01 | 1378 (55.1) | 1125 (44.9) | < 0.01 | 2189 (42.7) | 2933 (57.3) | < 0.01 |
| Primary | 201 (42.0) | 278 (58.0) | 222 (28.6) | 555 (71.4) | 579 (64.8) | 314 (35.2) | 546 (58.2) | 392 (41.8) | ||||
| Secondary | 325 (45.0) | 398 (55.0) | 141 (30.7) | 318 (69.3) | 1060 (66.9) | 524 (33.1) | 457 (55.0) | 374 (45.0) | ||||
| Higher | 232 (56.3) | 180 (43.7) | 51 (37.5) | 85 (62.5) | 962 (70.2) | 409 (29.8) | 183 (57.9) | 133 (42.1) | ||||
| Wealth Index n (%) | ||||||||||||
| Poorest | 26 (19.1) | 110 (80.9) | < 0.01 | 243 (12.2) | 1757 (87.8) | < 0.01 | 129 (49.6) | 131 (50.4) | < 0.01 | 701 (31.5) | 1525 (68.5) | < 0.01 |
| Poorer | 68 (21.7) | 246 (78.3) | 302 (18.1) | 1369 (81.9) | 291 (50.5) | 285 (49.5) | 951 (47.3) | 1059 (52.7) | ||||
| Middle | 176 (29.0) | 430 (71.0) | 348 (27.9) | 898 (72.1) | 581 (54.8) | 480 (45.2) | 831 (54.4) | 697 (45.6) | ||||
| Richer | 366 (41.4) | 517 (58.6) | 255 (32.8) | 523 (67.2) | 1064 (63.6) | 609 (36.4) | 588 (59.8) | 396 (40.2) | ||||
| Richest | 612 (50.7) | 594 (49.3) | 142 (42.1) | 195 (57.9) | 1914 (68.8) | 867 (31.2) | 304 (66.2) | 155 (33.8) | ||||
FPM: Family planning methods; PDHS: Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey
*p-value: calculated by using Chi-square test for categorical variables