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. 2011 Nov 13;10:341. doi: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-341

Table 2.

Predictors of women not attending ANC or EPI in Chad (n = 1180), adjusted for clustering.

Variable Attended neither % (n) Unadjusted OR (95% CI) Wald Adjusted OR (95% CI) Wald
p-value p-value
Region < 0.0001 0.001
South 31.3 (263) 1.0 1.0
East 79.6 (341) 8.5 (4.9-15.0) 2.6 (1.3-5.0)
North 51.4 (167) 2.3 (1.2-4.5) 1.1 (0.5-2.3)
Central 59.8 (142) 3.3 (1.5-7.0) 1.0 (0.4-2.6)
West 50.3 (267) 2.2 (1.4-3.6) 2.4 (0.3-4.4)

Residence < 0.0001 < 0.0001
Rural 54.5 (991) 1.0 1.0
Urban 12.6 (189) 0.1 (0.08-0.2) 0.2 (0.1-0.3)

Mother's education < 0.0001 < 0.0001
None 55.9 (1110) 1.0 1.0
Primary 16.8 (62) 0.2 (0.1-0.2) 0.4 (0.3-0.6)
Secondary 6.3 (8) 0.1 (0.02-0.1) 0.4 (0.2-1.0)
Higher 0 (0) --- ---

Partner's education < 0.0001 < 0.0001
None 60.0 (998) 1.0 1.0
Primary 31.2 (128) 0.3 (0.2-0.4) 0.7 (0.5-1.0)
Secondary 11.7 (48) 0.1 (0.05-0.1) 0.3 (0.2-0.4)
Higher 0.9 (1) 0.01 (0.001-0.05) ---

Partner's occupation < 0.0001 0.004
Professional 50.3 (1041) 1.0 1.0
Unemployed 17.3 (11) 0.2 (0.1-0.5) 1.5 (0.5-4.5)
Agriculture/manual labour 28.4 (117) 0.4 (0.3-0.5) 0.6 (0.4-0.8)
Clerical, sales, services 16.6 (3) 0.2 (0.1-0.6) 1.0 (0.4-2.2)

Number of children under 5 0.08 0.001
1 47.1 (1126) 1.0 1.0
2 37.2 (33) 0.7 (0.4-1.2) 1.2 (0.6-2.5)
3 14.5 (1) 0.2 (0.05-0.8) 0.2 (0.1-0.4)

Wealth index < 0.0001 0.1
Poorest 82.2 (432) 1.0 1.0
Second 50.8 (242) 0.2 (0.1-0.3) 0.7 (0.4-1.0)
Middle 45.3 (179) 0.2 (0.1-0.3) 0.6 (0.4-1.0)
Fourth 38.0 (178) 0.1 (0.1-0.2) 0.5 (0.3-0.9)
Least poor 16.8 (149) 0.04 (0.02-0.1) 0.4 (0.2-0.8)

Ethnicity < 0.0001 0.2
Others 50.9 (694) 1.0 1.0
Arabic 66.4 (253) 1.9 (1.3-2.9) 1.0 (0.6-1.6)
Kanem-bornou 47.8 (136) 0.9 (0.5-1.5) 0.6 (0.3-0.9)
Sara 26.1 (97) 0.3 (0.2-0.6) 0.9 (0.5-1.7)

Religion < 0.0001 0.2
Muslim 59.2 (954) 1.0 1.0
Catholic 30.9 (118) 0.3 (0.2-0.5) 0.5 (0.3-1.0)
Protestant 25.8 (69) 0.2 (0.1-0.4) 0.5 (0.3-1.0)
Other 42.7 (38) 0.5 (0.3-1.0) 0.7 (0.3-1.4)

Mother's occupation < 0.0001 0.2
Agriculture/manual labour 25.7 (109) 1.0 1.0
Unemployed 40.1 (264) 1.9 (1.2-3.0) 1.3 (0.9-2.0)
Clerical, sales, services 0 (0) --- ---
Professional 53.3 (803) 3.3 (2.1-5.3) 1.4 (0.9-2.1)