Consistent with other studies [1,20], this study identified
that women’s education had negative association
with teen marital pregnancy in bi-variate analysis. Insignificant
result in multi-variate analysis may be indicative
of more importance of other factors and incapacity of
education to influence adolescent pregnancy in multidimensional
settings. Similarly, mass media exposure
appeared to have significant negative impact on teenage
marital pregnancy in bi-variate analysis but not in multivariate
analysis. Such unexpected negative impact of
mass media on teenage marital pregnancy may be indicative
of a great concern, as awareness is mainly raised
through mass media campaign. Perhaps, women might
have known different issues, through mass media, such