Family Planning Patterns Among Pregnant Women in Nigeria, 2023

Survey data from 32 healthcare facilities in Jigawa, Oyo, and Lagos States, Nigeria, collected from July to September 2023. The study assessed contraceptive use patterns, barriers, and motivations among pregnant women attending antenatal care. It was authored by Ayodamola Bakare and published on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing regional disparities in contraceptive use based on data from three Nigerian states.
• Modeling the association between maternal health literacy scores and family planning utilization.
• Identifying sociodemographic factors linked to unintended pregnancies among the surveyed population.
• Comparing barriers to family planning access across different sociocultural contexts in Nigeria.

Strengths

• Includes data from 32 healthcare facilities across three states, capturing regional variation.
• Reports specific statistical results, such as a 52.7% overall rate of family planning use and a mean maternal health literacy score of 34.4.
• Uses a structured questionnaire and logistic regression analysis, suggesting a defined methodology.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small (22.0 KB), indicating limited scope or a summary document rather than raw data.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Cross-sectional study using structured questionnaires administered to pregnant women at antenatal care facilities.

Time Range

July to September 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 05:47:24; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Jigawa, Oyo, and Lagos States, Nigeria