Determinants And Perceived Consequences Of Unwanted Pregnancy Among Women In Oye Local Government Area, Nigeria.

ABSTRACT

Unwanted pregnancy is one of the major causes of unsafe abortion, high fertility and low

standard of living. This study examine.d the relationship between determinants and perceived

consequences ofoowanted pregnancy among women in Oye local government Area, Ekiti State

Nigeria. The data for this work was generated from questionnaire survey administered to 300

women of the reproductive age of 15"49 years. These women were sampled from 6 villages in

the local government areas. Stati~tical techniques such as descriptive statisti~s, Chi-square (X2),

and multinomial logistic regression analysis were used for analysis. The data was analyzed with

STATA2013. The results of the descriptive statistics. revealed that there is low level of unwanted pregnancy 13.80% in the local government area. The result of Chi-square showed determinants that were

significant relationship between marital status, religion, ethnic group, employment status,

occupation, partner's religion, partner's ethnic group, place of residence, wealth status, failure to

use contraceptive and use contraceptive and fertility behaviour.

The multinomial logistic regression results identified major indicators of unwanted pregnancy in

the study areas, they are; other marital status such as engaged and c~habiting. Based on these

findings, addressing the issue of unemployment and early marriage among women, provide

information, education; communication programs and improvements in cow1Seling and family planning availability were recommended.