Closing the poor-rich gap in contraceptive use in urban Kenya: are family planning programs increasingly reaching the urban poor?

Table 1 Characteristics ¹ of currently married women: Urban Kenya - 1993, 1998, 2003 and 2008/09

	1993	1998	2003	2008/09	All four surveys
Household wealth²
Poor	28.6	28.3	31.3	31.6	30.1
Middle	31.8	33.9	34.5	34.8	34.0
Rich	39.6	37.9	34.2	33.6	35.9
Women education
No education	10.2	5.3	8.1	5.1	6.9
Primary	43.2	44.4	44.1	38.3	42.3
Secondary+	46.6	50.3	47.8	56.6	50.8
Religion
Catholic	26.4	27.1	21.1	15.5	21.9
Other Christian	54.4	56.0	64.4	68.2	61.6
Others	19.2	16.8	14.5	16.4	16.5
Region
Nairobi	38.9	40.4	38.3	31.5	36.9
Central	6.5	4.3	8.1	6.9	6.5
Coast	15.7	15.5	14.7	19.5	16.5
Eastern	6.5	7.2	4.7	6.8	6.3
Nyanza	5.6	13.9	7.9	8.0	9.1
Rift Valley	18.5	13.4	20.1	20.2	18.1
Western	8.5	5.2	4.2	5.6	5.6
North Eastern	NA	NA	2.1	1.5	1.0
Woman’s age
<24	31.5	31.5	29.8	24.9	29.1
25-34	46.8	42.8	41.7	45.7	44.0
35+	21.6	25.8	28.6	29.4	26.9
Number of living children
0-1	34.1	32.7	35.7	35.2	34.5
2-3	38.7	42.8	40.8	46.0	42.5
4+	27.2	24.5	23.5	18.8	23.0
Fertility intentions
Want a child within 2 years	15.4	17.6	21.4	17.4	18.2
Wants a child after 2 years/unsure/undecided	34.3	31.1	32.3	38.2	34.1
Wants no more/sterilized/infecund	50.3	51.3	46.3	44.4	47.7
Modern contraceptive use	37.9	41.0	39.9	46.6	41.8
N	607	838	1,440	1,421	4,306

¹Weighted percentages.
²The wealth variable is constructed at the household level (for each urban sample). Women are thus not evenly distributed in the three wealth groups.

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