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Table 5 Factors associated with being at or above one-to-three ANC visits among pregnant women in Ethiopia (N = 6954)

From: Antenatal care use in Ethiopia: a spatial and multilevel analysis

Predictors

N

Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI)

 

Being at or above one-to-three ANC visits

Level-1 predictor variables

 Husbands’ or partners’ education

No education

4171

1

Primary

1903

1.526 (1.322, 1.763)

Secondary

567

2.023 (1.650, 2.480)

Higher

313

1.72 (1.457, 2.107)

 Wealth quintile

Lowest

2264

1

Second

1157

2.004 (1.591, 2.524)

Middle

1007

2.273 (1.786, 2.892)

Fourth

895

3.107 (2.421, 3.987)

Highest

1631

3.483 (2.650, 4.578)

Number of living children

0.929 (0.897, 0.962)

 Autonomy in own personal healthcare decision making

Respondent alone

1134

1

Joint decision

4063

0.995 (0.844, 1.174)

Husband/partner alone

1757

0.763 (0.634, 0.919)

 Nature of pregnancy

Wanted

5516

1

Unwanted

1438

0.803 (0.692, 0.930)

Level-2 predictor variables

 Residence

Urban

1512

1

Rural

5442

0.525 (0.415, 0.663)

 General service readiness

Health facility management system

1.016 (0.344, 3.003)

Health facility infrastructure

0.957 (0.361, 2.535)

 Antenatal care service availability

ANC supplements

4.909 (1.548, 15.569)

 Antenatal care service readiness

Skilled care

1.564 (0.617, 3.962)

Diagnostic service

1.951 (0.768, 4.957)

Average distance to the nearest health facility

0.982 (0.968, 0.995)

Random effects (Error variance)

 Var (Husbands’ or partners’ education)

0.005 (0.001, 16.324)

 Var (Wealth quintile)

0.032 (0.015, 0.115)

 Var (Number of living children)

0.002 (0.001, 0.018)

 Var (Nature of last pregnancy)

0.001 (0.000, 2.400)

 Var (Autonomy on her own healthcare decision)

0.007 (0.001, 2.250)

 Var (constant) - level-2 variance

0.024 (0.007, 0.692)

 Rho – Intra-class correlation

0.0073

 Fit statistics (−2 Log Likelihood)

12,857.23

  1. Bold entries have signficant values