Fig 1.
Selection of the study participationts following the STROBE guideline.
Table 1.
Background characteristics of the ever-married women who have given birth in last three years preceding the survey, BDHS 2017–18 (n = 5012).
Table 2.
Prevalence of postpartum family planning use by months after childbirth among the ever-married women who have given birth in last three years preceding the survey, BDHS 2017–18 (n = 4081).
Fig 2.
Cumulative percentage distribution of women who started to use modern postpartum family planning methods, distributed over the months after childbirth (0–11 months).
Table 3.
Cumulative survivor function to estimate the probability of postpartum modern family planning uptake among women who had given birth in three years preceding the survey, BDHS, 2017–18 (n = 4081).
Fig 3.
Probability of not using postpatum modern family planning methods over the months after childbirth (1–12 months) by women’s place of residence using Kaplan Meier survival estimates.
Fig 4.
Probability of not using postpatum modern family planning methods over the months after childbirth (1–12 months) by household wealth using Kaplan Meier survival estimates.
Fig 5.
Probability of not using postpartum modern family planning methods over the months after childbirth (1–12 months) by women’s education level using Kaplan Meier survival estimates.
Table 4.
Association of maternal healthcare service utilization with postpartum modern family planning uptake among women who had given birth in three years preceding the survey using poison modified generalised linear model estimates: BDHS, 2017–18 (n = 4081).