Table 2.

Wealth distribution of deliveries and caesareans

Wealth groups*	Column A: 2006 DHS survey (sample of deliveries)	Column B: 2010 patient survey (sample of caesareans)	Ratio of column B to column A [95% CI]**
Richest 40%	34.4%	57.6%	1.67 [1.43-1.91]
Middle 20%	20.4%	15.4%	0.75 [0.61-0.89]
Poorest 40%	45.1%	27.0%	0.59 [0.47-0.71]

* For simplicity, we combined the ‘poorest’ and the ‘poorer’ quintiles (poorest 40 percent), and the ‘richest’ and the ‘richer’ quintiles (richest 40 percent).

** 95-percent confidence intervals (CI) in brackets.