Contraception {mlmRev} | R Documentation

## Contraceptive use in Bangladesh

### Description

These data on the use of contraception by women in urban and rural areas come from the 1988 Bangladesh Fertility Survey.

### Usage

    data(Contraception)

### Format

A data frame with 1934 observations on the following 6 variables.

woman
  Identifying code for each woman - a factor
district
  Identifying code for each district - a factor
use
  Contraceptive use at time of survey
livch
  Number of living children at time of survey - an ordered factor. Levels are `0`, `1`, `2`, `3+`
age
  Age of woman at time of survey (in years), centred around mean.
urban
  Type of region of residence - a factor. Levels are `urban` and `rural`

### Source

http://multilevel.ioe.ac.uk/softrev/bang.html

### References

Steele, F., Diamond, I. And Amin, S. (1996). Immunization uptake in rural Bangladesh: a multilevel analysis. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (159): 289-299.

### Examples

    str(Contraception)
    summary(Contraception)
    (fm1 <- lmer(use ~ urban+age+livch+(1|district), Contraception, binomial))
    (fm2 <- lmer(use ~ urban+age+livch+(1|district), Contraception, binomial,
                 method = "Laplace")) ## change to "AGQ" when available
    (fm3 <- lmer(use ~ urban+age+livch+(urban|district), Contraception, binomial))
    (fm4 <- lmer(use ~ urban+age+livch+(urban|district), Contraception,
                 binomial, method = "Laplace"))

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