Reproductive Rights Knowledge, Health Care Utilization, and Contraceptive Use in Pakistan: A Reproductive Rights Perspective

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Table 1 MCA Table of the Effects of “Utilization of Health Care”(UHC); “Reproductive Rights Knowledge”; and Control Variables on “Contraceptive Use” Expressed as Deviation from the Grand Mean

Predictor Variables	N	Unadjusted Effects		Adjusted Effects
		Contraceptive Use	Eta	Contraceptive Use	Beta
Utilization of Health Care			0.609		0.567
0= Low level	80	−.244
1=High level	80	0.244
Reproductive Rights Knowledge			0.345		0.121
0=Low level	76	−.143
1=High level	84	0.129
Work status (Workdum)			0.071		0.099
0=Not working	41	−.047
1=Working	119	0.016
Family Type (Famtype)			0.046		0.002
0=Joint family	79	0.018
1= Not joint Family	81	−.018
Education status			0.062		0.029
0=Does not hold a graduate degree	49	0.037
1=Holds graduate Degree	119	−.016
Model R-Square					0.626

Table 2 Logistic Regression of “Contraceptive Use” on Independent Variables Net of the Effects of Control Variables

Variables	Beta (B)	Standard Error	Wald	P value	Odds Ratio	95% CI (Lower, Upper)
Utilization of Health Care	1.876	0.389	23.267	0.000	6.526	(3.04, 13.98)
Reproductive Rights Knowledge	0.605	0.385	2.467	0.116	1.831	(0.86,03.89)

Notes: Model Chi-Squared =41.96. p < 0.05. Nagelkerke R Square =0.31. N= 160.

Table 3 Path Model: Net Effects Controlling for Workdum, Famtype and Edudum

Causal Effects Among Variables (Label)		Estimates	Std. Error	Z-Value	P-value
Reproductive rights knowledge (RRK)	→Contraceptive use (CU)	0.065	0.059	0.969	0.333
Utilization of health care (UHC)	→Contraceptive use (CU)	0.630	0.60	9.412	0.001
Reproductive rights knowledge(RRK)	Utilization of health care (UHC)	0.468	0.069	6.687	0.001
CU – Unexplained variance		0.087	0.010	8.916	0.001