Table 2.
Median number of antenatal care (ANC) visits in Ethiopia according to reporting health facilities’ selected characteristics, and the associated statistical F-test and Chi-Square (χ2) test for equality of the means and medians, respectively.
| Characteristics | Category | Frequency | Median (x̃) | F (p-value) | χ2 (p-value) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership of the facility | Public | 3,801 | 3 | 8.62 (0.000) | 9.66 (0.000) |
| Private | 11 | 4 | |||
| NGO | 2 | 4 | |||
| Type of health facility | Primary | 1999 | 3 | 49.15 (0.000) | 125.99 (0.000) |
| Secondary | 879 | 4 | |||
| Tertiary | 936 | 4 | |||
| Source of data | Facility-based abstraction | 3,639 | 3 | 1.08 (0.29) | 1.79 (0.18) |
| Verbal autopsy | 175 | 3 | |||
| Reporting region | Addis Ababa | 808 | 4 | 38.33 (0.000) | 324.00 (0.000) |
| Amhara | 1,989 | 3 | |||
| Benishangul-Gumuz | 72 | 2 | |||
| Dire Dawa | 38 | 3 | |||
| Gambella | 4 | 0 | |||
| Harari | 21 | 2 | |||
| Oromia | 568 | 2 | |||
| Sidama | 154 | 2 | |||
| SNNPR | 96 | 3 | |||
| Somali | 64 | 0 | |||
| Year of reporting | 2018 | 448 | 3 | 17.72 (0.000) | 61.17 (0.000) |
| 2019 | 782 | 3 | |||
| 2020 | 879 | 3 | |||
| 2021 | 1705 | 3 | |||
| National | 3,814 | 3 |