Table 1.

Characteristics of female respondents age 15 to 49 overall and by number of reported female confidantes in Nigeria

	All respondents	0 confidantes	≥ 1 confidante	≥ 2 confidantes
N	11,106	4788	5883	1953
Age
15–19	18.9	17.5	19.8	18.8
20–24	16.2	14.9	17.5	16.5
25–29	18.8	17.2	20.1	19.0
30–34	15.0	15.0	15.0	15.5
35–39	13.9	15.5	12.7	14.0
40–44	10.5	11.7	9.2	10.0
45–49	6.8	8.2	5.7	6.2
Education
Never	17.5	19.0	14.8	15.9
Primary	15.2	16.5	14.2	12.1
Secondary	46.9	46.9	48.1	44.6
Higher	20.3	17.6	22.8	27.3
Marital status
Currently married/cohabiting	63.7	66.4	61.1	62.6
Divorced or separated/widowed	4.8	5.5	4.3	4.1
Never married	31.5	28.1	34.6	33.3
Religion of household
Catholic	14.7	13.1	15.8	17.6
Other Christian	44.0	44.1	45.4	44.7
Muslim	39.2	41.2	36.4	35.6
Other	2.1	1.7	2.4	2.0
Ethnicity
Hausa	21.0	22.8	19.0	19.6
Igbo	22.5	21.0	23.6	24.6
Other	56.5	56.2	57.4	55.9
Wealth
Poorest	23.2	23.1	22.2	20.2
Second poorest	20.2	20.3	20.2	20.3
Middle	17.6	19.5	16.4	15.4
Second wealthiest	18.6	18.1	19.4	19.3
Wealthiest	20.5	19.1	21.8	24.8
Residence
Rural	42.9	39.3	44.7	46.0
Urban	57.1	60.7	55.3	54.0
State
Anambra	12.8	10.3	14.4	15.4
Kaduna	9.5	10.0	8.9	7.9
Kano	13.1	14.5	11.2	12.5
Lagos	21.4	22.4	21.4	22.2
Nasarawa	13.4	12.5	14.3	12.8
Rivers	17.0	17.8	17.1	18.3
Taraba	12.7	12.4	12.6	10.9
Parity
0	35.1	31.9	37.9	35.8
1–2	25.1	24.8	25.7	25.0
3–4	21.7	23.2	20.6	21.3
5+	18.1	20.1	15.8	18.0
Current contraceptive use
No	75.8	78.0	73.5	71.4
Yes	24.2	22.0	26.5	28.6
Unadjusted likely abortion incidence	41.1	30.3	51.4	39.4
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Estimates weighted; bold indicates p value for design-based F test (reference group 0 confidantes) less than 0.05