Table 4.
Predictors of home births
| Characteristics (n=824) 438: Home births 386: Institutional delivery |
p Value (ignoring clustering) |
Crude OR (95% CI), p value (accounted for clustering) |
Adjusted* OR (95% CI), p value (LR test) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buland masjid | <0.001 | 1 | <0.001 | ||
| CPJ | 0.42 (0.30 to 0.59) | ||||
| Chaderpuri | 0.69 (0.49 to 96) | ||||
| Birth order second and above | <0.001 | 2.12 (1.57 to 2.87) | <0.001 | 1.96 (1.44 to 2.69) | <0.001 |
| Lower SES | 1 | ||||
| Middle SES | 0.033 | 0.90 (0.64 to 1.26) | 0.011 | 0.96 (0.66 to 1.406) | 0.68 |
| Highest SES | 0.70 (0.50 to 0.98) | 0.91 (0.60 to 1.38) | |||
| Joint families | 0.057 | 0.78 (0.57 to 1.05) | 0.102 | ||
| Non-Muslims | 0.004 | 0.77 (0.54 to 1.1) | 0.15 | 0.78 (0.54 to 1.14) | 0.21 |
| Schooling of HOH | 0.007 | 0.74 (0.55 to 0.99) | 0.04 | 0.71 (0.53 to 0.97) | 0.031 |
| Not working | 1 | 0.063 | 1 | 0.2 | |
| Elementary job | 0.024 | 1.63 (1.08 to 2.45) | 1.54 (1 to 2.38) | ||
| Skilled job | 1.42 (0.92 to 2.17) | 1.40 (0.89 to 2.21) | |||
| Own the house | 0.004 | 0.76 (0.56 to 1.02) | 0.07 | 0.94 (0.65 to 1.34) | 0.72 |
| Ration card possession | 0.037 | 0.80 (0.60 to 1.07) | 0.14 | ||
| Not belonging to Delhi | <0.001 | 1.61 (1.21 to 2.15) | 0.001 | 1.46 (1.08 to 1.97) | 0.013 |
*Adjusted for house ownership, SES, literacy of HOH, Occupation of HOH, belonging to Delhi and birth order.
HOH, head of the household; LR test, likelihood ratio test; SES, socioeconomic status.