Table 2. Sample characteristics of PMA survey respondents across survey years.

Factor		Survey Round
		2014 †	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Total (n)		3889	2450	2503	2366	2353	2036
Residence	Urban	40.11	40.86	42.67	42.39	43.43	45.38
	rural	59.89	59.14	57.33	57.61	56.57	54.62
Region	Tigray	17.82	14.94	13.62	14.45	14.28	11.59
	Amhara	24.79	20.98	22.97	21.89	22.95	22.20
	Oromia	12.81	19.71	19.50	19.32	20.82	22.20
	SNNP	26.10	26.12	26.01	24.43	24.14	20.43
	Addis Ababa	12.45	12.12	11.91	11.88	11.64	9.72
	Other	6.04	6.12	5.99	8.03	6.16	13.85
Education	Never attended	32.57	30.73	30.78	29.24	28.07	32.12
	Primary	37.85	37.19	37.73	36.48	36.80	39.15
	Secondary/higher	29.58	32.08	31.49	34.28	35.14	28.73
Age(year)	15–19	7.02	7.35	7.03	8.62	6.84	7.66
	20–24	22.68	24.86	22.41	22.36	20.95	20.97
	25–34	47.06	45.10	46.66	45.73	47.22	46.66
	35–49	23.25	22.69	23.89	23.29	24.99	24.71
Parity	0 Children	15.66	18.82	15.26	17.97	17.00	10.76
	1–2 children	42.76	41.67	44.19	43.38	42.07	46.39
	3+ children	41.58	39.51	40.55	38.65	40.93	42.85
Method source	Hospital	17.26	17.51	16.42	20.63	21.76	9.04
	Health post	19.64	19.28	17.80	20.45	18.53	22.79
	Health center	50.42	48.86	52.4	44.96	43.56	60.17
	Pharmacy	6.62	8.59	7.96	9.19	11.39	6.43
	Others	6.06	5.77	5.42	4.77	4.76	1.57
Method type	Short-acting	78.19	75.21	73.79	72.03	69.62	63.06
	Long-acting	21.81	24.79	26.21	27.97	30.38	36.94
Media exposure	No	37.80	36.32	38.50	44.14	44.26	53.93
	Yes	62.20	63.68	61.50	55.86	55.74	46.07
Wealth quintile	Lowest	7.02	8.9	8.99	9.55	9.82	11.89
	Lower	9.39	9.22	10.31	9.86	10.84	15.28
	Middle	11.03	10.86	12.78	10.23	10.62	17.83
	High	17.56	17.76	16.74	20.84	20.7	20.87
	Highest	55	53.27	51.18	49.54	48.02	34.14

^† In 2014 two surveys were conducted, and the data were pooled together.