Table 2. Maternal health care outcomes and observations from the 2010 Cambodian Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) .
Outcome variable | Definition of outcome variable | 2010 Cambodian DHS |
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Description of sample | No. of observations in sample | Mean value of outcome variable for sample | |||
Antenatal care | The variable was set to 1 if the child’s mother had at least three antenatal care visits at a public health-care facility, 0 otherwise | Most recent births | 4916 | 0.79 | |
Delivery | The variable was set to 1 if the child was born in a public health-care facility, 0 otherwise | Births in the 5 years preceding the survey | 7270 | 0.42 | |
Place of delivery | |||||
Home | The variable was set to 1 if the child was born at home, 0 otherwise | Births in the 5 years preceding the survey | 3485 | 0.48 | |
Public hospital | The variable was set to 1 if the child was born in a public hospital, 0 otherwise | Births in the 5 years preceding the survey | 1289 | 0.18 | |
Health centre | The variable was set to 1 if the child was born in a health centre, a health post or another public facility,a 0 otherwise | Births in the 5 years preceding the survey | 1776 | 0.25 | |
Private facility | The variable was set to 1 if the child was born in a private facility, 0 otherwise | Births in the 5 years preceding the survey | 664 | 0.09 | |
Postnatal careb | The variable was set to 1 if the child’s mother had at least one postnatal care visit with a skilled provider, 0 otherwise | Most recent births | 5685 | 0.59 |
NA, not applicable.
a Fewer than 3% of deliveries took place in a health post or another public facility.
b The Cambodian DHS did not include information on the place where the postnatal care visit took place.