Determinants of demand for family planning health services in Tanzania: an Econometric Investigation

This study investigates determinants of demand for family planning health services. It considers both the socio-economic and demographic factors affecting contraception use. It utilizes data from Tanzania demographic and health survey of 2010. The logistic regression model is used, of which the choices involved are using contraception and not using contraception.The findings reveals that, education of women, family planning knowledge, individuals’ economic status, and other supply factors like friendliness of family planning health workers and proximity to health facilities affect the demand for family planning health services significantly.So if Tanzania has to achieve maximum family planning achievement, this study recommend that the government has to increase provision of family planning knowledge, enhance provision of education, improve poor people’s economic well beings, lower cost of health services by subsidizing the services, providing health insurance and ensure that there is easy accessibility and availability of family planning health services.