Socio-Economic and Demographic Factors that Influence Contraceptive Use by Men in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State

Abstract

This study examines the Socio-Economic and Demographic Factors that influence Contraceptive use by Married Men in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. It is aimed at identifying the determinants of contraceptive use among married men in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. A sample of four hundred and sixty one (461) married men were selected for the study through Multi-Stage sampling design. Cross tabulation results revealed that there is a significant relationship between the independent variables and contraceptive use. Logistic regression results showed that the significant socio-economic and demographic determinants of contraceptives use among the study sample are marriage duration of at least five years, religion, education, occupation, parity, number of children living and age. The Hosmer Lemeshow test for goodness of fit of the logistic regression model is 87.9 percent and is highly significant (p-value > 0.05). This indicates that the model fitted is adequate. The study recommends among others that it is necessary for young couples with less than five-year experience, Muslims, the no education group and farmers, to be targeted and carried along in the campaign for the use of contraceptive methods.