Table 4.

Coefficients of multinomial logistic regression on place of PNC utilization in Ethiopia, analysis from EDHS 2016

Predictor variables	Multinomial Logit Model
	Utilizes PNC at home versus not utilized at all				Utilizes PNC at HF versus not utilized at all
			95%CI				95%CI
	P-value	AOR	Lower bound	Upper bound	P-Value	AOR	Lower bound	Upper bound
Age group
15–24 years	0.571	1.241	0.588	2.618	0.306	0.745	0.423	1.310
25–34 years	0.366	1.250	0.770	2.030	0.458	0.868	0.596	1.262
35–49 years RC
Region
Agrariana	0.005	0.378	0.193	0.740	0914	0.969	0.551	1.704
Pastoralistsb	0.466	0.788	0.415	1.496	0.800	0.929	0.526	1.640
Urban adminc RC
Place of residence
Urban	0.105	0.498	0.215	1.158	0.840	1.057	0.615	1.816
Rural RC
Educational status
Not Educated	0.740	1.080	0.685	1.705	0.139	0.778	0.558	1.085
Primary and above RC
Religion
Orthodox Christian	0.798	1.073	0.624	1.847	0.010	1.698	1.137	2.536
Muslim	0.889	0.964	0.572	1.623	0.423	1.181	0.786	1.777
Othersd RC
Number of family members
1–4	0.845	0.939	0.479	1.839	0.130	1.498	0.888	2.527
5–7	0.590	0.875	0.538	1.422	0.121	1.380	0.918	2.074
> = 8 RC
Sex of household head
Male	0.592	0.868	0.518	1.456	0.754	0.937	0.622	1.411
FemaleRC
Wealth Index
Poor	0.154	0.696	0.423	1.146	0.007	0.608	0.424	0.873
Middle	0.466	1.216	0.718	2.061	0.257	0.791	0.527	1.187
Rich RC
Ever used anything to delay pregnancy
No	0.005	0.528	0.337	0.826	0.030	0.694	0.499	0.966
Used outside calendar	0.410	1.396	0.631	3.091	0.466	1.264	0.673	2.376
Used in calendar RC
Wanted Pregnancy when become pregnancy
Then	0.465	1.388	0.576	3.345	0.031	0.579	0.352	0.953
Later	0.051	2.544	0.998	6.486	0.894	1.038	0.597	1.805
No more RC
Number of ANC Visits
Have no ANC visit	0.000	0.245	0.145	0.413	0.000	0.264	0.184	0.380
1–3 visits	0.826	0.955	0.634	1.439	0.001	0.568	0.412	0.784
> =4 visits RC
Marital status
Married/lived with partner.	0.745	1.156	0.483	2.770	0.876	0.955	0.535	1.705
Otherse RC
Participant’s occ.
No work	0.225	0.745	0.462	1.200	0.065	0.711	0.495	1.022
Agricultural work	0.446	0.812	0.475	1.387	0.999	1.000	0.672	1.489
Others fRC
Ever heard of fistula
No	0.064	0.697	0.476	1.021	0.264	0.844	0.627	1.136
Yes RC
Number of living children
4 and bellow	0.3688	0.692	0.310	1.544	0.200	1.423	0.830	2.440
5 and above RC
Frequency of listing radio
Not at all	0.196	0.691	0.394	1.210	0.041	0.652	0.432	0.984
Less than once a week	0.606	0.933	0.416	1.668	0.235	0.731	0.435	1.227
At least once a week RC
Owns mobile telephone
No	0.298	1.376	0.755	2.511	0.311	0.806	0.530	1.224
Yes RC
Has bank account
No	0.033	0.479	0.243	0.943	0.642	0.886	0.532	1.476
Yes RC
Ever born children
1–2 children	0.789	0.876	0.333	2.305	0.152	0.622	0.325	1.192
3–4 children	0.827	1.094	.489	2.449	0.299	0.757	0.448	1.280
> = 5 children RC
Size of the newborn at birth
Larger than average	0.785	0.934	0.573	1.524	0.374	0.845	0.583	1.225
Average	0.676	1.097	0.711	1.693	0.908	0.981	0.708	1.358
Smaller than average

^a Tigray, Amhara, Oromo, and South nation nationality and peoples. ^bAfar, Gambella, Benishangule, and Somalia, ^cAddis-Ababa, Harrar and Drie-Dawa. ^dCatholic, Protestant and Others. ^e Single, divorced, widowed, separated. ^fDaily laborer, industrial work and others.

AOR Adjusted Odds Ratio. RC Reference Category

Boldfaces significant variables at p < 0.05