Table 1 Percentage distribution of women of reproductive age by their attitude towards wife beating
From: Wife beating refusal among women of reproductive age in urban and rural Ethiopia
Variables | Classification | Rural | Urban | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Refuse wife beating | Accept wife beating | Refuse wife beating | Accept wife beating | ||
I | II | III | IV | ||
Region | Afar | 19.8 | 80.2 | 48.7 | 51.3 |
Amhara | 21.3 | 78.7 | 37.4 | 62.6 | |
Oromia | 29.8 | 70.2 | 59.2 | 40.8 | |
Somalia | 13.3 | 86.7 | 23.0 | 77.0 | |
Ben-Gumuz | 32.6 | 67.4 | 53.8 | 46.2 | |
SNNP | 18.1 | 81.9 | 51.0 | 49.0 | |
Gambella | 29.2 | 70.8 | 42.9 | 57.1 | |
Harari | 21.1 | 78.9 | 53.3 | 46.7 | |
Addis Ababa | – | – | 76.1 | 23.9 | |
Dire Dawa | 27.8 | 72.2 | 62.0 | 38.0 | |
Tigray | 27.5 | 72.5 | 47.1 | 52.9 | |
Level of education | No Education | 19.4 | 80.6 | 78.3 | 21.7 |
Primary | 29.4 | 70.6 | 61.9 | 38.1 | |
Secondary | 49.5 | 50.5 | 52.0 | 48.0 | |
Higher | 79.9 | 20.1 | 35.1 | 64.9 | |
Age | 15–24 | 28.4 | 71.6 | 53.8 | 46.2 |
25–34 | 22.2 | 77.8 | 55.3 | 44.7 | |
35–49 | 21.5 | 78.5 | 53.1 | 46.9 | |
Access to media | Not at all | 21.1 | 78.9 | 23.8 | 76.2 |
Sometimes | 24.0 | 76.0 | 50.5 | 49.5 | |
Frequently | 31.4 | 68.6 | 60.1 | 39.9 | |
work status | Not working | 24.2 | 75.8 | 56.4 | 43.6 |
Family business | 26.0 | 74.0 | 44.9 | 55.1 | |
Employed | 23.6 | 76.4 | 54.0 | 46.0 | |
Marital Status | Never married | 35.5 | 64.5 | 57.8 | 42.2 |
Currently in Union | 20.4 | 79.6 | 53.3 | 46.7 | |
Ever married | 26.7 | 73.3 | 45.9 | 54.1 | |
Religion | Orthodox | 26.0 | 74.0 | 56.4 | 43.6 |
Protestant | 20.4 | 79.6 | 52.3 | 47.7 | |
Islam | 26.2 | 73.8 | 48.6 | 51.4 | |
Others | 17.7 | 82.3 | 41.7 | 58.3 | |
Number of living children | None | 32.6 | 67.4 | 57.0 | 43.0 |
1–2 | 23.0 | 77.0 | 56.2 | 43.8 | |
3–4 | 19.5 | 80.5 | 48.2 | 51.8 | |
5 and above | 20.3 | 79.7 | 42.1 | 54.2 | |
Household wealth Status | Low | 22.8 | 77.2 | 39.6 | 60.4 |
Medium | 23.1 | 76.9 | 50.7 | 49.3 | |
High | 27.8 | 72.2 | 70.7 | 29.3 | |
Total | 24.5 | 75.5 | 54.2 | 45.8 | |