Choice of contraceptive methods among women in union who want to space or stop child bearing in two rural districts in middle Ghana

Background
The right to reproductive choice and the contraceptive choices made to actualize reproductive preferences are of importance to population and development policy.

Methods
This study is based on a Sexual and Reproductive Health survey which was undertaken in 2011 by the Kintampo Health Research Centre in Ghana. It aims to identify the methods chosen by non-pregnant women in union who desire to space or stop childbearing and to determine how contraceptive choices are influenced by their fertility desires. A simple random sample of 5975 was drawn from a resident population of 35619 women aged 15 to 49 years from the KHDSS database.

Expected Outputs:
Tabulations of basic descriptive statistics and tabulations of outcome and explanatory variables, cross-tabulations of all fertility preferences and contraceptive method choice and are tested for significant relationships using chi-squared tests and relative risk ratios from multinomial logistic regression fitting explanatory variable against outcome variable