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Article History

Received: 24 December 2021

Accepted: 4 August 2022

First Online: 10 August 2022

Declarations

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: In obtaining the microdata, a request was made on online to the DHS program website ExternalRef removed on November 10, 2021, and approval was granted to download the data on the same day; hence, there were no ethical issues of concern. They permitted us to access the data with reference number 161706.The data used in this study was freely available and did not contain any personal information. The research is done based on a secondary data from EDHS. Issues of informed consent, confidentiality, anonymity and privacy of the study sample already done ethically by the EDHS authority and we did not manipulate and use the data for other issues. There was no patient or public involvement in this study.We hereby declare that this CBHI study represents our own work which has been done after registration and reception for the accessing of data at ExternalRef removed and confirm that all methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. We have read the BMC public health journal’s current research ethics guidelines, and accept responsibility for the conduct of the procedures in accordance with the journals. We have attempted to identify all the risks related to this research that may arise in conducting this research, obtained the relevant ethical and/or safety approval (where applicable), and acknowledged my obligations and the rights of the participants by the demography and health survey program authorities. The research is conducted in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.