Table 2. Associations between maternal mortality rate or ratio and potential drivers of variation, Nepal.

Drivers of variationa	Maternal mortality ratioβ and R2	Maternal mortality rateβ and R2
% Professional delivery care	38** 0.007	−0.173** 0.098
% Hospital delivery	8.4** 0.0003	−0.174** 0.085
% Health facility delivery	93** 0.05	−0.086** 0.026
% Emergency obstetric care facility delivery	0.87** 0.08	0.0001 0.000
% Caesarean section delivery	0.760** 0.006	−0.003** 0.057
% Met need for emergency obstetric care	0.942** 0.22	0.0006** 0.06
Mean birth order	−28** 0.02	0.026** 0.013
Mean wealth quintile	5.8** 0.008	−0.015** 0.035
Mean total children born	−12** 0.004	0.035** 0.025
Mean age at first birth	−44** 0.178	0.023** 0.033
Mean haemoglobin	−2.50** 0.198	−0.0008** 0.014
% anaemia moderate/severe	118** 0.38	−0.095** 0.163
% any birth preparation	−4.38** 0.0004	0.0048** 0.0003
Human Development Index (regional)	−713** 0.283	−1.176** 0.51
Gross Domestic Product (regional)	5.48 0.000	0.071** 0.002
Gender Empowerment Measure (regional)	−575** 0.35	−0.714** 0.356
General Fertility Rate	1.12** 0.109	0.003** 0.613

Data source: Maternal mortality and morbidity survey, 2008 weighted by number of live births. β is the slope of the regression line and R² the coefficient of determination.

**Denotes statistical significance of difference at less than 1%.

^aDrivers are of district variation unless stated otherwise, depending on availability of data.