Despite the high maternal mortality rates in Zimbabwe, use of reproductive health services by adolescent women remains low. The overall contribution of provincial-level variable effect to reproductive health care utilisation is compared with the contribution by individual-level and household effects. This study posits that provincial characteristics are more critical predictors of reproductive health care utilisation than other individual and household characteristics. Using the 2010/11 Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey data, provincial level contribution effect is compared with that of individual and household effects using predicted probability of use of reproductive health care service. The predicted probability of using modern contraceptives due to a change of provincial-level characteristics is less significant than whereas it was more significant than that of the individual and household level characteristics in use of health facility for delivery and PNC. Provincial-level characteristics are more important predictors of some of the adolescent women reproductive health care outcomes.

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