Table 1.

Background Characteristics (Haiti, Malawi, Nepal, Senegal, and Tanzania)

	Haiti	Malawi	Nepal	Senegal	Tanzania
Facility characteristics	N = 358	N = 253	N = 282	N = 179	N = 632
Facility type
Hospital	19.7%	24.8%	42.5%	9.7%	26.8%
Health center/clinic	51.3%	72.8%	33.5%	18.3%	39.1%
Dispensary	29.0%	2.4%	24.0%	72.0%	34.1%
Managing authority
Government	45.1%	71.5%	83.6%	91.4%	73.5%
Private non-faith based	36.1%	6.5%	15.6%	8.6%	6.8%
Private faith based	18.9%	22.0%	0.7%		19.6%
Urban/rural
Urban	45.1%	20.3%		46.3%	32.3%
Rural	54.9%	79.7%		53.7%	67.7%
Average number of staff	12.6	7.8	10.5	7.7	10.4
Health worker characteristics	N = 406	N = 283	N = 337	N = 184	N = 799
Qualification
Physician	42.4%	0.0%	16.7%	1.1%	1.8%
Clinical officer	0.0%	5.1%	5.5%	11.7%	3.2%
Nurse/Midwife	57.6%	94.9%	77.9%	87.2%	95.0%
Gender
Male	32.5%	24.7%	11.2%	10.0%	12.4%
Female	67.5%	75.3%	88.8%	90.0%	87.6%
Individual characteristics	N = 779	N = 815	N = 520	N = 297	N = 1681
Number of weeks pregnant		21.3	19.7		22.4
Client had a previous pregnancy	33.4%	24.9%	48.5%	24.2%	25.7%
Age (years)	26.6	25.1	22.9	25.8	25.9
Highest level of education attained
Never attended school	14.1%	13.7%	25.0%	52.5%	18.5%
Primary	39.9%	64.2%	8.3%	25.6%	60.1%
Secondary	43.6%	20.0%	48.1%	19.9%	19.1%
Higher	2.3%	2.1%	18.7%	2.0%	2.3%