Table 1.

Characteristics of pregnant women and prevalence of unhappiness with current pregnancy

Selected variables		Total of women (N, %)		Prevalence of unhappiness (n, %)		X2 P-value*	Selected variables		Total of women (N, %)		Prevalence of unhappiness (n, %)		X2 P-value*
Total (%) PANEL A		1546	100.0	378	24.5		PANEL B
Socio demographic characteristics							Women’s reproductive variables and pregnancy intentions
Age groups (in years)	12–19	334	21.6	141	42.2	0.000	Gestational age at interview	1 st trimester	75	4.9	25	33.3	0.036
	20–24	556	36.0	95	17.1			2nd trimester	490	31.7	104	21.2
	25–34	541	35.0	105	19.4			3rd trimester	889	57.5	228	25.6
	35–49	115	7.4	37	32.2			Missing #	92	6.0	-	- #
Place of residence	Urban	1351	87.4	330	24.4	0.954	Had previous pregnancies	Yes	1246	80.6	264	21.2	0.000
	Rural	195	12.6	48	24.6			No	300	19.4	114	38.0
Relation to head of household	Head	472	30.5	92	19.5	0.000	Had adverse pregnancy outcomes (N = 1246)	Yes	474	38.0	83	17.5	0.013
	Wife/mother	457	29.6	90	19.7			No	772	62.0	181	23.4
	Daught/grand	379	24.5	128	33.8		Know modern Contraceptives	Yes	1405	90.9	329	23.4	0.003
	Daughter-law	162	10.5	53	32.7			No	141	9.1	49	34.8
	Unrelated	76	4.9	15	19.7		Was pregnancy intentional	Intentional	1031	66.7	24	2.3	0.000
Household size	Below median	692	44.8	149	21.6	0.001		Unintentional	515	33.3	354	68.7
	Median size	271	17.5	56	20.7		Timing of unintended pregnancy (n = 515)	Wrong time	325	63.1	204	62.8	0.000
	Above median	583	37.7	173	29.7			Shouldn’t occur	175	34.0	148	84.6
Education of women	Primary/none	179	11.6	46	25.7	0.000		Don’t know	15	2.9	2	13.3
	Secondary	1,016	65.7	277	27.3		Why were you happy (N = 1,168)	Wanted more children	289	24.7	Not applicable. These women are happy. This question applies to happy women only.
	Higher	351	22.7	55	15.7			Blessing/good surprise	333	28.5
Religion of women	Catholic	902	58.3	223	24.7	0.558		Satisfy spouses/family	64	5.5
	Protest/Evan	206	13.3	45	21.8			Desperate for children	46	3.9
	Islamic/Hind	350	22.6	84	24.0			Wanted a child	398	34.1
	None	88	5.7	26	29.5			Don’t know	38	3.3
Woman marital status	Single/never	287	18.6	110	38.3	0.000	Why were you unhappy (N = 378)	Unplanned	114	30.2	The values on the left refer to unhappy women. This question applies to unhappy women only.
	Married/cohb	1,237	80.0	260	21.0			Want no + childr	21	5.6
	Divorced/sep	22	1.4	8	36.4			Short birth interva	31	8.2
								Fear consequence	67	17.7
								Unwantd/undesir	100	26.5
								Don’t know	45	11.9

In the “Relation to head” variable, the option “Daught/grand” stands for “Daughter and granddaughter”. Option “Daughter-law” stands for “Daughter-in-law”

In variable “Religion of women”, option “Protest/Evan” stands for “Protestant and Evangelic”; and option “Islamic/Hind” stands for “Islamic and Hindu”

In variable “Women marital status”, option “Single/never” stands for “Single, never married”; option “Married/cohb” stands for ““Married or cohabiting”; option “Divorced/sep” stands for “Divorced or separated”

In variable “Why were you unhappy”, “Want no + childr” stands for “Want no more children”, option “Short birth interva” stands for “Got pregnant while she had a too young baby”, which we termed “short birth interval”. Option “Unwantd/undesir” stands for “Unwanted or undesired pregnancy”

^#The prevalence of unhappiness was estimated excluding the “missing” category

*Pearson X² test p-value for comparison of prevalence of unhappiness between categories of women. Where covariates have a category with missing or unknown values, the X² was estimated omitting these categories