Determinants Of Teenage Pregnancy Experience In Oye-Ekiti Local Government, Ekjti State, Nigeria

ABSTRACT

Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the highest levels of teenage pregnancies in the world. It is often debated in literature as reasons of health concern and social problems (World Health Organization, 2008). This study hypothesizes that demographic factors do not significantly influence teenage pregnancy experience in Oye-Ekiti. Data was collected via self-administered structured questionnaire to assess young girls' on Determinants of Teenage Pregnancy experience in Oye-Ekiti. Convenience sampling technique was used doing the study. Three information selected for this study are Ayegbaju, Ilupeju, Oye located government. A minimmn of 80 participants were selected from the three study areas, making a total of 250 participants. Pregnancy experience (68%), bi-variate analysis shows that some of the socio-demographic variable are significant at p-value less than 0.05 while multivariate analysis at p-value