Table 2.
Correlates of Nurse attendance
| Nurse present at time of woman's first visit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | |
| Age in years | −0.013 | −0.013 | −0.015 | −0.012 |
| (0.012) | (0.013) | (0.013) | (0.013) | |
| Age in years, squared | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| (0.000) | (0.000) | (0.000) | (0.000) | |
| Completed primary school | −0.012 | −0.011 | −0.012 | −0.010 |
| (0.022) | (0.022) | (0.022) | (0.024) | |
| Married | 0.037 | 0.036 | 0.041 | 0.042 |
| (0.027) | (0.027) | (0.028) | (0.030) | |
| Frequency of church attendance in past four weeks | −0.002 | −0.002 | −0.001 | −0.000 |
| (0.004) | (0.004) | (0.004) | (0.004) | |
| Boils drinking water | −0.026 | −0.021 | −0.018 | −0.018 |
| (0.027) | (0.023) | (0.024) | (0.025) | |
| # of livestock held at enrollment | −0.000 | −0.000 | −0.000 | −0.001 |
| (0.004) | (0.004) | (0.004) | (0.004) | |
| Lives in a non-thatched house | −0.009 | −0.007 | −0.006 | −0.005 |
| (0.031) | (0.030) | (0.028) | (0.029) | |
| Lives in Maseno division | −0.005 | −0.005 | −0.006 | −0.006 |
| (0.026) | (0.027) | (0.026) | (0.026) | |
| Log distance from clinic | −0.004 | −0.005 | −0.005 | −0.003 |
| (0.021) | (0.021) | (0.020) | (0.019) | |
| Quarter of conception ==2 | 0.017 | 0.017 | 0.013 | |
| (0.038) | (0.038) | (0.034) | ||
| Quarter of conception ==3 | −0.030 | −0.035 | −0.039 | |
| (0.057) | (0.058) | (0.054) | ||
| Quarter of conception ==4 | −0.045 | −0.047 | −0.066 | |
| (0.050) | (0.052) | (0.052) | ||
| Moderate chance HIV +ve | 0.017 | 0.012 | ||
| (0.039) | (0.040) | |||
| Small chance HIV +ve | −0.027 | −0.029 | ||
| (0.036) | (0.037) | |||
| No chance at all HIV +ve | −0.069 | −0.075 | ||
| (0.054) | (0.054) | |||
| Day of week = Tuesday | −0.028 | |||
| (0.048) | ||||
| Day of week = Wednesday | −0.045 | |||
| (0.043) | ||||
| Day of week = Thursday | −0.098 | |||
| (0.068) | ||||
| Day of week = Friday | −0.188 | |||
| (0.093)* | ||||
| Day of the month | 0.004 | |||
| (0.011) | ||||
| Day of the month squared | −0.000 | |||
| (0.000) | ||||
| Constant | 1.086 | 1.086 | 1.140 | 1.151 |
| (0.217)** | (0.231)** | (0.252)** | (0.242)** | |
| Observations | 581 | 581 | 577 | 577 |
| R-squared | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.07 |
Notes: The variables are defined in Table 1. "Nurse present at time of woman's first visit" takes value 1 if the PMTCT nurse was present at the ANC clinic on the day of the first visit during this pregnancy, 0 otherwise. Standard errors in brackets clustered at the visit date level.
**, * and + indicate statistical significance at the 1, 5 and 10 percent level respectively.