Table 3. Multinomial logistic regression showing the effect of socio-demographic characteristics on the use of contraceptives with ‘not using any method’ as the base outcome.

	Model 1
	LARC		Other methods
Characteristics	RRR	95% CI	RRR	95% CI
Age
15–24	1		1
25–34	2.04	1.88–2.23***	1.51	1.45–1.57***
35+	1.47	1.33–1.63***	1.41	1.36–1.47***
Education
No education	1		1
Primary	2.15	1.92–2.40***	1.82	1.74–1.91***
Secondary	3.19	2.80–3.63***	2.42	2.29–2.57***
Higher	4.65	3.73–5.79***	3.03	2.70–3.41***
Marital status
Never married	1		1
Married/ living with partner	11.24	9.69–13.05***	6.38	6.01–6.77***
Widowed	2.72	2.13–3.48***	1.43	1.30–1.58***
Separated	6.83	5.61–8.31***	2.41	2.20–2.64***
Divorced	7.49	6.16–9.09***	2.68	2.45–2.93***
Occupation
Unemployed	1		1
Managerial	1.35	1.13–1.60**	1.16	1.06–1.27**
Clerical/ agric	1.25	1.13–1.37***	1.25	1.20–1.31***
Labour	1.42	1.30–1.55***	1.3	1.25–1.35***
Wealth Index
Poorest	1		1
Poorer	1.19	1.07–1.33**	1.14	1.09–1.19***
Middle	1.37	1.22–1.53***	1.16	1.10–1.22***
Richer	1.44	1.28–1.62***	1.3	1.24–1.37***
Richest	1.65	1.44–1.89***	1.23	1.16–1.31***
Mass media exposure
No exposure	1		1
At least one exposure	1.06	0.98–1.15	1.25	1.21–1.30***
Place of residence
Urban	1		1
Rural	0.85	0.76–0.96**	0.86	0.82–0.91***
Country
Cameroon	1		1
Chad	1.39	0.98–1.97	0.24	0.21–0.28***
Ghana	4.26	3.32–5.47***	0.69	0.63–0.76***
Malawi	13.36	10.78–16.54***	1.95	1.80–2.12***
Mali	2.86	2.17–3.77***	0.28	0.25–0.32***
Rwanda	8.77	7.08–10.87***	1.13	1.04–1.23**
Zambia	7.47	5.92–9.43***	1.48	1.36–1.62***
Zimbabwe	10.02	8.03–12.51***	2.31	2.12–2.51***

*p-value < 0.05;

**p-value < 0.01;

***p-value < 0.001