Table 1. Background demographic characteristics of follow-up respondents compared with married and sexually active unmarried women in three selected regions, GDHS 2014.
| Percentage distribution of background characteristics within the following groups: | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family planning users in three study regions1 | Follow-up family planning users2 | Women with unmet need in three study regions1 | Follow-up respondents with unmet need2 | |
| Age | ||||
| 15–19 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 4 |
| 20–24 | 17 | 20 | 17 | 18 |
| 25–29 | 26 | 28 | 20 | 12 |
| 30–34 | 22 | 22 | 18 | 26 |
| 35–39 | 14 | 20 | 21 | 22 |
| 40–44 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 18 |
| 45–49 | 7 | ▪ | 4 | ▪ |
| Residence | ||||
| Urban | 61 | 39 | 60 | 26 |
| Rural | 39 | 61 | 40 | 74 |
| Region | ||||
| Central | 33 | 41 | 27 | 32 |
| Greater Accra | 56 | 28 | 49 | 14 |
| Northern | 11 | 30 | 24 | 54 |
| Education | ||||
| No education | 15 | 20 | 27 | 46 |
| Primary education | 16 | 11 | 17 | 16 |
| Secondary and above | 69 | 70 | 56 | 38 |
| Religion | ||||
| Catholic | 8 | 20 | 6 | 6 |
| Anglican | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Methodist | 8 | 7 | 5 | 4 |
| Presbyterian | 7 | 7 | 4 | 4 |
| Pentecostal/Charismatic | 41 | 37 | 44 | 32 |
| Other Christian | 20 | 11 | 13 | 14 |
| Islam | 11 | 11 | 20 | 20 |
| Traditional/Spiritualist | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 |
| No religion | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ethnicity | ||||
| Akan | 52 | 57 | 41 | 34 |
| Ga/Dangme | 14 | 4 | 14 | 6 |
| Ewe | 14 | 7 | 12 | 6 |
| Guan | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Mole-Dagbani | 9 | 9 | 16 | 18 |
| Grusi | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Gurma | 5 | 22 | 9 | 36 |
| Mande | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Other | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Total | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| Number of women | 625 | 46 | 746 | 50 |
Note: Percentages may not sum to total due to rounding.
▪ Zero due to sampling criteria
1 National and regional estimates are weighted.
2 Follow-up respondents are shown unweighted for ease of comparison with case count tables.