Assessment of rural households’ mobile phone usage status for rural innovation services in Gomma Woreda, Southwest Ethiopia

Daniso, Berhanu; Muche, Mequanent; Fikadu, Biruk; Melaku, Ermias; Lemma, Tsega

doi:10.1080/23311932.2020.1728083

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“…This finding was supported by other studies [36][37][38]. The possible justification behind this could be related to the fact that the availability and utilization of mobile phones were limited in rural areas [39][40][41]. Besides, rural resident women are less educated and could not read and understand messages sent to them via SMS [42,43].…”

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Urban-rural inequalities and spatial arrangement of informed choice of family planning in Ethiopia: Further analysis of 2016 Ethiopian demographic health survey

Tareke,

Takele,

Ahmed

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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Background Ethiopia has made satisfactory progress in improving maternal and child health over the past two decades. The introduction of family planning through informed choice is one of the main strategies to improve maternal and child health. However, this positive progress may have masked the significant urban-rural disparities in informed choice for family planning. Objective To identify factor contributing to observed urban-rural disparities and to determine the spatial distribution of informed family planning choices in Ethiopia. Methods The study used information from 3,511 women currently using contraceptives (rural-2685 and urban-826) as per recent Ethiopian demographic health survey cross-sectional data. Spatial and descriptive, bivariable, and multivariable logit-based decomposition analysis methods were used. Results The spatial configuration of uninformed choice was clustered. The primary cluster (LLR = 34.8, p-value<0.001) was located at the southern portion of Amhara region that covers east & west Gojjam, south Gondar and south Wollo administrative zones. The magnitude of informed choice was 12 percent higher in urban residents compared to rural residents. Urban-rural gap was attributed to variations in characteristics (74%). Place of family planning offer i.e., private health facility, being aged between 35 and 49 years, and having visited to health facility in the last 1 year are found decrease the urban-rural gap of informed family planning choice by 15%, 9% and 5% respectively. Conversely, being aged between 25 and 34 years, being a listener to radio has increased the gap by 9% and 12% respectively. Conclusion The variables being private health facility visitors, being aged between 35 and 49 years and having visited health facilities in the last one year are found to increase the gap of informed family planning choices between urban and rural residents Besides, the spatial distribution of uninformed family planning choices is non-random.

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Urban-rural inequalities and spatial arrangement of informed choice of family planning in Ethiopia: Further analysis of 2016 Ethiopian demographic health survey

Tareke,

Takele,

Ahmed

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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“…This nding was supported by other studies (29)(30)(31). The possible justi cation behind this could be related to the fact that availability and utilization of mobile phone is limited in rural areas (32)(33)(34). Besides rural resident women are less educated and could not read and understand massages send to them via SMS (35,36).…”

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confidence: 99%

Urban-rural inequalities and spatial arrangement of informed choice of FP in Ethiopia: further analysis of 2016 Ethiopian demographic health survey

Tareke¹,

Takele

Ahmed³

et al. 2023

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Background Ethiopia has showed satisfactory progress in the improvement of maternal and child health in the last two decades. Adoption of family planning through informed choice is among the main strategy to achieve favorable maternal and child health. But this favorable progress might have masked the substantial urban-rural inequalities in informed choice of family planning. Objective To identify the contributing factors for the observed urban-rural inequalities and to determine spatial arrangement of informed choice of family planning in Ethiopia. Methods The study utilized information from 3,511 (weighted) currently contraceptive user women (rural-2685 and urban-826) from the most recent release cross-sectional data of Ethiopian demographic health survey. Spatial and Descriptive, bivariable, and multivariable logit-based decomposition analysis techniques were used. Results the spatial configuration of not informed choice was clustered. The primary cluster (LLR = 34.8, p-value < 0.001) was southern portion of Amhara region that covers east & west Gojjam, south Gondar and south Wollo administrative zones. The

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“…When farmers listen to radio, or talk to their friends either physically or on phone, they are informed of what other farmers are doing in other places and are thus able to adopt their best practices including identifying new feeding resources that other farmers are using and incorporating them into their own production. Access to agricultural and market information has been shown to improve access to agricultural extension with all its benefits including feeding practices (Daniso et al, 2020;Hilary et al, 2017). Similarly, associating with other pig farming friends is important is improving pig feed diversity through social influence.…”

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An assessment of pig feed diversity amongst smallholder pig farmers in Northern Uganda

Okello

Odongo

Aliro

et al. 2021

Cogent Food & Agriculture

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Pig production has a high potential for increasing household incomes of both rural and urban smallholder farmers. However, this opportunity is constrained by the high cost of feeds and its scarcity. As such, farmers usually feed pigs on multiple feed resources within their reach. Although the diversity of pig feeds is important in overcoming the challenges, there is limited information on how this can be achieved, and the factors influencing it. Using a cross-section of 240 pig farming households, this study assessed how socio-demographic, technical and institutional factors influenced household pig feed diversity. Statistical analysis was performed at p < 0.1, p < 0.05 and p < 0.01), respectively. Results showed that marital status (p = 0.012), household size (p = 0.085), number of crop (p = 0.008) and other livestock enterprises (p = 0.055), ownership of mobile phone (p = 0.091), buying feeds (p = 0.005), and use of radio (p = 0.032) and friend as sources (p = 0.002) of agricultural information had a positive significant influence on household pig feed diversity. Additionally, age (p = 0.042), land size owned (p = 0.085) and breed [rearing local (p = 0.009) and crosses (p = 0.000) as opposed to exotic breeds] had a negative significant influence on household pig feed diversity.The study recommends that focus should be placed on improving access to farm inputs, agricultural and market information for smallholder pig farmers so as to

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Assessment of rural households’ mobile phone usage status for rural innovation services in Gomma Woreda, Southwest Ethiopia

Cited by 11 publications

References 4 publications

Urban-rural inequalities and spatial arrangement of informed choice of family planning in Ethiopia: Further analysis of 2016 Ethiopian demographic health survey

Urban-rural inequalities and spatial arrangement of informed choice of family planning in Ethiopia: Further analysis of 2016 Ethiopian demographic health survey

Urban-rural inequalities and spatial arrangement of informed choice of FP in Ethiopia: further analysis of 2016 Ethiopian demographic health survey

An assessment of pig feed diversity amongst smallholder pig farmers in Northern Uganda

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