Table 2.
Cesarean Section Rates by Payment Source and Type of Hospital and Individual and Structural Variables, Brazil, 2008*
| Payment source†/type of hospital |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variables | SUS/public | SUS/private | Non-SUS/public | Non-SUS/private |
| Age | ||||
| 15-19 | 35.8 | 27.6 | 64.8‡ | 81.6 |
| 20-24 | 36.4 | 51.5 | 61.4 | 78.6 |
| 25-29 | 42.9 | 54.3 | 75.8 | 86.9 |
| 30-49 | 50.5 | 78.4 | 79.8 | 87.2 |
| Years of schooling | ||||
| 0-3 | 34.4 | 34.9‡ | 52.3‡ | 76.2 |
| 4-7 | 38.3 | 60.7 | 49.8 | 77.5 |
| 8-10 | 40.4 | 49.4 | 55.3 | 83.5 |
| 11 | 46.1 | 62.0 | 79.2 | 83.7 |
| 12+ | 58.4 | 62.8 | 92.3 | 88.8 |
| Live birth order | ||||
| One child | 44.1 | 57.8 | 82.4 | 86.3 |
| Two children | 41.3 | 50.0 | 73.6 | 83.2 |
| Three or more children | 36.5 | 63.0 | 36.0 | 84.6 |
| Region of residence | ||||
| North | 44.9 | 40.9‡ | 16.3‡ | 75.2 |
| Northeast | 38.1 | 61.1 | 37.6 | 84.7 |
| Southeast | 42.4 | 56.3 | 87.4 | 83.8 |
| South | 43.4 | 58.2 | 82.5 | 88.6 |
| Central West | 41.9 | 53.2‡ | 38.5‡ | 91.2 |
| Overall Average | 41.2 | 56.5 | 72.4 | 85.0 |
| n (analytic weight) | 2,582 | 108 | 107 | 863 |
| N (frequency weight) | 1,251,358 | 52,197 | 51,670 | 418,348 |
*
Analytic weight was used to estimate these frequencies, preserving the sample size
†
SUS is the Brazilian governmentally funded health system (“Sistema Único de Saúde”)
‡
Calculated on fewer than 10 cases. Source: 2008 Brazilian household survey (PNAD).