Assessment and Identification of Factors that Contribute to Divorce of Women in Ethiopia

Abstract

An attempt has been done to assess and identify the major variables that contribute to divorce in Ethiopia. Age of women, place of residence, religion of a woman, education level of a woman, religion of a woman, number of living children are the major variables which influence divorce in Ethiopia using binary logistic regression model.

Keywords: binary logistic regression, divorce, ever married women, Ethiopian Demographic Health Survey data