Table 4 Trends in health care use by educational and island groups, Indonesia, 1987–1997.
| % Of population | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Educational attainment | Island group | |||
| Low educated | High educated | Outer Java/Bali | Java/Bali | |
| Measles vaccination coverage* | ||||
| DHS 1987 | ||||
| DHS 1991 | 47 | 67 | 47 | 66 |
| DHS 1994 | 46 | 74 | 58 | 66 |
| DHS 1997 | 56 | 78 | 70 | 72 |
| absolute change between 1991–97† | 9 | 11 | 23 | 6 |
| Antenatal care‡ | ||||
| DHS 1987 | ||||
| DHS 1991 | 70 | 90 | 75 | 84 |
| DHS 1994 | 78 | 94 | 84 | 90 |
| DHS 1997 | 85 | 97 | 91 | 94 |
| absolute change between 1991–97† | 15 | 6 | 16 | 10 |
| Skilled delivery attendance§ | ||||
| DHS 1987 | 24 | 57 | 45 | 31 |
| DHS 1991 | 20 | 51 | 38 | 33 |
| DHS 1994 | 21 | 54 | 44 | 37 |
| DHS 1997 | 26 | 61 | 52 | 47 |
| absolute change between 1991–97† | 6 | 10 | 14 | 14 |
| Births with tetanus vaccination¶ | ||||
| DHS 1987 | ||||
| DHS 1991 | 46 | 71 | 48 | 67 |
| DHS 1994 | 53 | 76 | 57 | 73 |
| DHS 1997 | 60 | 80 | 68 | 77 |
| absolute change between 1991–97† | 14 | 9 | 21 | 10 |
| Current use of modern family planning** | ||||
| DHS 1987 | 35 | 49 | 33 | 44 |
| DHS 1991 | 38 | 50 | 37 | 47 |
| DHS 1994 | 42 | 54 | 42 | 52 |
| DHS 1997 | 45 | 55 | 45 | 55 |
| absolute change between 1991–97† | 8 | 5 | 8 | 8 |
| Knowledge of ORS†† | ||||
| DHS 1987 | ||||
| DHS 1991 | 76 | 95 | 81 | 89 |
| DHS 1994 | 78 | 96 | 87 | 88 |
| DHS 1997 | 83 | 96 | 90 | 92 |
| absolute change between 1991–97† | 7 | 1 | 9 | 3 |
Low educated: no education or some primary, high educated: primary completed or higher. DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys. In DHS 1987, data were not available for a number of indicators. *Measles: % of surviving children age 12–23 months (at time of survey) with measles vaccination, by vaccination card or mother's report. †Measures the absolute change in rate between DHS 1991 and 1997. ‡Antenatal care: % of births in the five years before the survey for which a woman received at least one antenatal care consultation from a medically trained person, defined as a doctor, nurse, or nurse midwife. §Skilled delivery attendance: % of births in the five years before the survey that were attended to by a medically trained person, defined as a doctor, nurse, or nurse midwife. ¶Births with tetanus vaccination: % pregnancies during which tetanus toxoid injections were given to avoid convulsions after birth. **Current use of modern family planning methods: % of married women aged 15–49 years. †† Knowledge of ORS: % mothers having heard of ORS (oral rehydration) for treating children with diarrhoea.