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Table 1 Characteristics of participating women who gave birth(s) in last five years (weighted n = 7033 in SN; n = 4445 in TZ), Senegal and Tanzania DHS 2010

From: The relationship of women’s status and empowerment with skilled birth attendant use in Senegal and Tanzania

Variables

Senegal

Tanzania

Freq

Weighted

 

Freq

Weighted

Mean or Proportion

SE

Mean or Proportion

SE

Outcome

 Skilled Birth Attendant (SBA) use at the last birth

4251

66.30

1.27

2233

50.95

1.51

Demographics and perceived accessibility of health care

 Education

      

  Formal education attendance (in years)

 

1.79

0.08

 

5.01

0.10

  No formal education

5577

70.54

1.21

1082

24.42

1.22

  Primary attended

1384

20.74

1.01

2771

68.93

1.18

  Secondary or above attended

490

8.71

0.57

556

6.65

0.52

 Age at childbirth

 

29.40

0.12

 

29.38

0.15

 Household wealth quintile

      

  Poorest

2264

22.38

1.31

818

19.58

1.08

  Poorer

1882

20.95

1.18

957

22.61

0.96

  Middle

1534

19.19

1.13

905

21.47

0.92

  Richer

1056

19.85

1.34

954

19.99

1.12

  Richest

715

17.63

1.12

775

16.35

1.14

 Employment for payment

      

  Employed (currently or last 12 months)

3386

46.04

1.12

1717

38.07

1.10

 Parity (Total # of children ever born to women)

 

3.81

0.04

 

3.90

0.05

 Marital relationships

      

  Monogamous union

4909

68.19

0.83

3394

78.87

0.53

  Polygamous as 1st wife

991

12.73

0.44

434

8.97

0.53

  Polygamous as 2nd or lower

1550

19.08

0.55

549

12.16

0.82

 Household head

322

4.98

0.38

251

5.67

0.47

 Place of residence

      

  Urban

2267

39.95

1.62

878

21.67

1.18

  Rural

5184

60.05

1.62

3531

78.33

1.18

 Having son(s)

5687

80.87

0.63

3618

81.38

0.67

 Perceived difficulty in accessing health care (Mean, scored 0–4)

 

1.23

0.04

 

0.53

0.02

Women’s empowerment proxy measures

 Household decision-making power (scored 0–3)

 

0.92

0.03

 

1.43

0.02

 Perceptions against violence (0–5)

 

2.80

0.05

 

3.16

0.04

 Perceptions for sex negotiation (0–2)

 

0.60

0.02

 

1.38

0.02

 Age at first marriage

 

18.29

0.10

 

18.28

0.06

  1. Characteristics related to births were also assessed including all births that women delivered in the last five years (weighted birth n = 10,668 in SN; n = 6748 in TZ). The proportion of SBA use at the recent birth(s) was 64.6 % in SN; 47.5 % in TZ. The mean of birth order of each birth was 3.67 in SN; 3.75 in TZ. The proportion of births that took place when women had living son(s) was 60.2 % in SN; 62.3 % in TZ
  2. Frequency missing with demographic characteristics = 32 (with marital relationships), and 17 (with perceived difficulty in accessing health care) in Tanzania. Missing = 1 (with marital relationships) in Senegal