Table 2.

Fixed effects models explaining the contribution of health staffing to variations in the quality of care, public facilities.

Explanatory variables	Prenatal and child care quality, standard deviation units
	1	2
Human resources at facility
Medical doctors (MDs)
One	0.593*** [0.204]	0.561*** [0.203]
Two or more	0.673*** [0.218]	0.631*** [0.218]
Nurses
One	0.069 [0.137]	0.086 [0.136]
Two	0.194 [0.182]	0.201 [0.182]
Three or more	0.369** [0.185]	0.368** [0.185]
No MD ×Ln number of nurses	−0.009 [0.156]	−0.029 [0.155]
Midwives
One	0.122 [0.148]	0.112 [0.148]
Two	0.131 [0.173]	0.119 [0.172]
Three or more	0.085 [0.174]	0.082 [0.173]
No MD ×Ln number of midwives	0.393** [0.197]	0.398** [0.196]
1997 (=1)	−0.399** [0.042]	−0.153 [0.130]
Socioeconomic controls	No	Yes

Notes: Coefficients and standard errors reported, n = 1907. The omitted category is “0” for all three categories of human resources. In addition to the variables shown, all models include facility factors: inpatient beds, electricity, microscope, facility type. Model 2 includes socioeconomic controls (district GDP, household expenditures, maternal age and education).

^**p ≤ 0.05

^***p ≤ 0.01.