Geographically linking population and facility surveys: methodological considerations

Table 5 Marginal effect at the mean for family planning readiness score and individual use of modern contraception, modeled for different datasets linked with KDE

	Model: census	Model: sample 1	Model: sample 2	Model: sample 3	Model: sample 4	Model: sample 5
	ME (se)	ME (se)	ME (se)	ME (se)	ME (se)	ME (se)
FP readiness score (ref=lowest score):
Low score	−0.027	−0.024	0.008	−0.019	−0.023	−0.009
	(0.015)	(0.015)	(0.016)	(0.016)	(0.015)	(0.015)
Middle score	0.020	0.015	−0.027	0.005	−0.014	−0.020
	(0.017)	(0.016)	(0.015)	(0.016)	(0.015)	(0.015)
Higher score	0.038*	0.025	−0.018	0.020	0.034*	−0.003
	(0.017)	(0.017)	(0.015)	(0.017)	(0.017)	(0.015)
Highest score	0.046**	0.028	0.009	0.051**	0.012	0.001
	(0.018)	(0.017)	(0.016)	(0.018)	(0.016)	(0.016)
FP readiness score with covariates ¹
Low score	−0.007	−0.010	0.000	−0.008	−0.011	−0.008
	(0.007)	(0.007)	(0.007)	(0.007)	(0.006)	(0.006)
Middle score	0.009	0.007	−0.006	0.003	−0.001	−0.008
	(0.008)	(0.007)	(0.007)	(0.007)	(0.007)	(0.006)
Higher score	0.014	0.013	−0.008	0.010	0.011	−0.001
	(0.008)	(0.008)	(0.006)	(0.008)	(0.008)	(0.007)
Highest score	0.018*	0.012	0.003	0.021*	0.003	−0.004
	(0.008)	(0.008)	(0.007)	(0.008)	(0.007)	(0.007)

¹ Controlling for marital status, mother’s education, parity, desire to space/limit children, wealth.
* p<0.05, **p<0.01, *** p<0.001.

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