Table 1. Details of births in six countries, by study site, 2010–2012.
| Study site | No. of women enrolled | No. (%) of births by attendant |
No. (%) of births by place |
No. (%) of caesarean sections performed | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physician | Nurse | Traditional birth attendant | Family member | Hospital | Health clinic | Home | Othera | ||||
| Argentina | 8 861 | 6 381 (72.2) | 2 410 (27.3) | 3 (0.0) | 47 (0.5) | 8 757 (98.9) | 14 (0.2) | 20 (0.2) | 63 (0.7) | 3 048 (34.4) | |
| Guatemala | 19 725 | 7 023 (35.6) | 374 (1.9) | 12 276 (62.2) | 51 (0.3) | 6 632 (33.6) | 718 (3.6) | 12 308 (62.4) | 66 (0.3) | 2 939 (14.9) | |
| India | |||||||||||
| Belgaum | 65 810 | 37 518 (57.0) | 22 412 (34.1) | 1 864 (2.8) | 3 997 (6.1) | 42 885 (65.2) | 16 506 (25.1) | 6 053 (9.2) | 304 (0.5) | 7 963 (12.1) | |
| Nagpur | 30 938 | 17 741 (57.4) | 10 788 (34.9) | 1 109 (3.6) | 1 281 (4.1) | 19 969 (64.6) | 8 351 (27.0) | 2 564 (8.3) | 32 (0.1) | 5 383 (17.4) | |
| Kenya | 27 072 | 503 (1.9) | 10 341 (38.2) | 12 882 (47.6) | 3 345 (12.4) | 3 247 (12.0) | 7 293 (26.9) | 16 153 (59.7) | 376 (1.4) | 376 (1.4) | |
| Pakistan | 40 656 | 9 800 (24.1) | 10 654 (26.2) | 18 449 (45.5) | 1 687 (4.2) | 10 995 (27.1) | 9 809 (24.2) | 19 487 (48.0) | 308 (0.8) | 3 374 (8.3) | |
| Zambia | 21 008 | 559 (2.7) | 10 812 (51.5) | 5 960 (28.4) | 3 676 (17.5) | 1 609 (7.7) | 10 542 (50.2) | 8 567 (40.8) | 289 (1.4) | 231 (1.1) | |
| Total | 214 070 | 79 525 (37.1) | 67 791 (31.7) | 52 543 (24.5) | 14 084 (6.6) | 94 094 (44.0) | 53 233 (24.9) | 65 152 (30.4) | 1438 (0.7) | 23 314 (10.9) | |
a Delivery occurred during transit to a health-care facility or information was not available.