Table 4.

Risk factors of maternal mortality at the household and provincial level, South Africa, 2001 (from linear logistic regression)

Household characteristics	Beta	Standard error	Net effect	Relative risk	P-value	Signif.
Provincial level
HIV prevalence	0.0173	0.0082	689	1.15	0.036	*
Violence death rate	0.0393	0.0088	795	1.33	0.000	*
Home delivery	-0.0072	0.0085	566	0.95	0.399
Household level
Level of education	-0.0588	0.0131	497	0.83	0.000	*
Wealth distance	-0.0638	0.0228	517	0.86	0.005	*
Urban	0.2103	0.0993	738	1.23	0.034	*
Black/African (ref)			599	1.00	0.000	*
Coloured	-0.3925	0.2379	405	0.68	0.099
Indian	-0.9613	0.5872	230	0.38	0.102
White	-1.6767	0.5858	113	0.19	0.004	*
Constant	-5.9427	0.3092	599