Reasons and multilevel factors associated with unscheduled contraceptive use discontinuation in Ethiopia: evidence from Ethiopian demographic and health survey 2016

Table 4 Frequency distribution of reasons of discontinuation for different contraceptive methods, from-EDHS 2016, January 2018

Discontinued methods	Reason to discontinue a contraceptive
Discontinued methods	became pregnant (failure)	method related	Access	husband opposed	Unreliable reasons	other reasons	Total
Pill	23	106	13	1	39	12	194
Injectables	41	710	116	27	241	129	1264
Long acting	4	158	1	4	36	31	234
Male condom	0	4	0	0	16	4	24
Other modern	5	10	0	0	17	5	37
Traditional	3	8	0	0	7	0	18
Total	76	996	130	32	356	181	1771

Other reasons = (fatalistic, don’t know), method related reasons = (side effect, inconvenience, and needing better method)

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