Table 4.

Associations between current contraceptive use and alter characteristics, among women with a family planning network (N=152 women; n=214 alters)

	Currently using modern contraception*
Alter characteristics	aRR	95% CI
Female	0.90	(0.80 – 1.02)
Age (years)	0.99	(0.99 – 0.996)
Supportive of contraceptive use	7.58	(1.18 – 48.64)
Type of relation with respondent ~
Provider (nurse, mid-wife, doctor) (reference group)	--
Community health worker	1.19	(1.06 – 1.35)
Health educator	0.94	(0.72 – 1.23)
Friend	1.01	(0.83 – 1.23)
Partner	1.14	(1.02 – 1.28)
Mother or aunt	1.01	(0.78 – 1.29)
Sibling	1.01	(0.80 – 1.27)
Other	1.19	(1.05 – 1.35)

^*Each estimate corresponds to the results of a single multivariable Poisson regression model. Contraceptive use is the dependent variable and the row variable is the primary explanatory variable of interest. All models adjust for respondent’s age, parity, marital status, primary school completion, and household earnings and sub-district fixed effects. We restricted these analyses to the 152 women who reported having a family planning network and excluded women who were currently pregnant, and used cluster-correlated robust standard errors at the sub-district level.

^~Type of relation with respondent is a categorical variables. The estimates for each category within that variable are from one multivariable model. Notes: aRR = adjusted risk ratio; FP = family planning. “Alter” refers to any individual that study respondents identified as being someone upon whom they relied for contraceptive information and advice.