TABLE 3.

Multinomial regression showing the factors related to decision-making to use contraception.

Variables	Women		Both
	Odds ratio	95% CI	Odds ratio	95% CI
Education
No education (ref)	1000	-	-	-
Primary	1.106	0.541–2.263	0.748	0.413–1.353
Secondary	2.368*	1.016–5.517	1.807	0.901–3.624
Higher and/or tertiary	2.043	0.640–6.525	1.494	0.573–3.895
Occupation
Unemployed (ref)	1000	-	1000	-
Business and/or trading	1.027	0.433–2.439	2.400*	1.203–4.788
Government worker	1.650	0.847–3.214	2.198**	1.239–3.897
Student	4.110*	1.382–12.225	3.740**	1.400–9.991
Domestic worker	0.801	0.367–1.747	1.337	0.698–2.561
Religion
Roman Catholic Church (ref)	1000	-	1000	-
Methodist	0.185**	0.079–0.433	0.458*	0.211–0.990
Pentecostal	0.362*	0.147–0.894	0.717	0.309–1.662
Seventh Day Adventist	0.331**	0.152–0.725	0.560	0.267–1.178
Traditional religion	0.073**	0.017–0.307	0.292*	0.107–0.792
Duration of union
< 5	0.403**	0.209–0.777	0.537*	0.309–0.931
5–9 (ref)	1000	-	1000	-
10+	0.689	0.368–1.288	0.469**	0.270–0.814
Home language
Setswana (ref)	1000	-	1000	-
Afrikaans	0.995	0.199–4.989	1.908	0.565–6.438
IsiXhosa	0.469	0.193–1.139	0.550	0.268–1.130
Sesotho	0.777	0.359–1.680	1.117	0.602–2.073
IsiZulu	0.891	0.376–2.111	0.305**	0.130–0.717
Partner has right to use force for sex
No (ref)	-	-	1000	-
Yes	0.432	0.171–1.090	0.399*	0.178–0.894
I do not know	0.470*	0.222–0.996	0.642	0.354–1.162
Spousal discussion about sex
Difficult (ref)	1000	-	1000	-
Not difficult	1.373	0.741–2.541	2.399**	1.415–4.069
Partner uses force for sex sometimes
No	-	-	1000	-
Yes	1.500	0.870–2.587	2.256**	1.414–3.597

Note: Data in bold indicates p-value significance.

ref, reference category; CI, confidence interval.

^*, Significant at p < 0.05;

^**, significant at p < 0.001.