Title: Modern contraception utilization and associated factors among all women aged 15-49 in
Ethiopia: Evidence from the 2019 Ethiopian Mini Demographic and Health Survey
Version: 0 Date: 14 Aug 2022
Reviewer's report:
Thank you for the opportunity to review this paper. The authors attempted to assess modern
contraception use and associated factors in Ethiopia: Evidence from the 2019 Ethiopian Mini
Demographic and Health Survey. Here are my comments
General comment: correct the alignment of the paragraph and the font based on the journal
guideline. Moreover, put the line numbers and check the grammar of the whole document.
• Write the keywords in alphabetical order
• On your table during categorizing educational status you said more than secondary, please
recategorize this variable based on previous literature.
Specific comments in the abstract section:
1. In the method section, you said min DHS please correct it accordingly.
2. Rewrite the following sentence to make it more appealing.” Logistic regression model used to
examine the association between women’s background characteristics and modern contraceptive
use”.
3. Please conclude based on your result.
Comments in the introduction section
1. Most of the time the introduction of the manuscript is started by defining and narrating what
is known about the outcome of interest (in previous bodies of literature). Though, you should
write it accordingly.
2. The introduction section is shallow, therefore you have to make it more understandable and
include important information
3. Why did you put the result of the mini- DHS in the introduction section? ‘However, the recent
Ethiopian Mini Demographic and Health Survey have shown a low uptake of contraceptive
methods and high-unmet needs. The survey reported about 29% contraceptive prevalence
rate among all women between the ages 15 to 49 years with only 28% of users of modern
contraceptive methods
4. Your objective lacks consistency, (this study aims to identify potential factors on the use
of the modern contraceptive method’ and ‘this study aimed to examine how the use of the
modern contraceptive method is influenced by socio-demographic characteristics of women in
Ethiopia”. What is your objective?
Comments under method section
5. The method section of the manuscript consists of different sub-sections, the first sub-section
is “Study setting, data source, and study design”. You stated the first sub-section as a study
setting and the information which you wrote is about the data source rather than the study
setting. Therefore, as one subsection “Study setting, data source, and study design’ incorporate
the information stated in the subsection
6. In the study variable sub-section, you said Individual-level variables include respondent age,
residence, region, education, and wealth quintile. Are there community-level variables? Do you
conduct a multilevel analysis???
7. In the data analysis section’ to summarize initially the study variables alone and to
explore association between study variables with the utilization of modern contraceptive
methods; univariate descriptive and bivariate analysis implemented, respectively’ please rewrite
it understandably. It is not the same that univariate and Univariable and multivariate and
multivariable, so you have to delineate your analysis technique
8. You didn’t check model fitness and multicollinearity
Comments under result section
9. The description of table one should be written after you state the sociodemographic
characteristics of the population and the table title should have full information
10. The result section should have subsections, like the prevalence of modern contraceptive
use and factors associated with modern contraceptive use. However, you present those sections
without separation and it is not clear. Therefore, you have to rewrite it accordingly.
11. There is no title in Tables 2 and 3. It is good if you put the tables in the manuscript rather
than submitting it in a separate way
12. In general, the way of writing the result section is not appropriate. Though you have to
rewrite it again.
Comments on the discussion sections
13. You put some unnecessary information in the discussion section. Please remove this
paragraph (This study used national and regional representative data to reflect the prevalence of
reproductive age woman's modern contraceptive utilization and its possible associated factors.
The data were collected through adapted DHS program’s standard questionnaires”
14. In general, the way you present the discussion is poor and it lacks reasoning and comparison
of your results to the previous studies. So you have to rewrite it in detail