Table 2.
Exposure to media and perinatal deaths, Liberia, 2013 (N=7690) and 2019 (2020) (N=5742)
| Exposure to media | 2013 round (weighted) | 2019 (2020) round (weighted) | ||||
| Frequency N (%) |
Perinatal death n (%) |
P value | Frequency N (%) |
Perinatal death n (%) |
P value | |
| Frequency of reading newspaper/magazine | 0.7492 | 0.562 | ||||
| Not at all | 5625 (85.6) | 172 (2.6) | 4813 (91.0) | 199 (4.0) | ||
| Less than once a week | 585 (8.9) | 19 (0.3) | 418 (8.0) | 22 (0.0) | ||
| At least once a week | 362 (5.5) | 8 (0.1) | 54 (1.0) | 1 (0.0) | ||
| Frequency of listening to radio | 0.1736 | <0.001 | ||||
| Not at all | 2117 (32.2) | 57 (0.9) | 2363 (44.7) | 75 (1.0) | ||
| Less than once a week | 2144 (32.6) | 56 (0.9) | 1649 (31.2) | 57 (1.0) | ||
| At least once a week | 2311 (35.2) | 85 (1.3) | 1273 (24.1) | 91 (2.0) | ||
| Frequency of watching television | 0.1539 | 0.963 | ||||
| Not at all | 4574 (69.6) | 154 (2.3) | 3695 (69.9) | 152 (2.9) | ||
| Less than once a week | 1115 (17.0) | 24 (0.4) | 944 (17.8) | 41 (0.8) | ||
| At least once a week | 883 (13.4) | 21 (0.3) | 646 (12.3) | 29 (0.5) | ||