Table 1.
Demographic variables and preferred place of delivery, Addis Ababa, January 2014.
| Variables | Place of delivery | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Home | Public facility | Private facility | |
| Demographic variables | |||
| Age group | |||
| 15–24 | 9.6∗∗ | 75.1 | 15.3 |
| 25–29 | 5.8 | 66.9 | 27.3 |
| 30–49 | 5.8 | 67.7 | 26.5 |
| Number of living children | |||
| 0–2 | 5.1∗∗ | 71.7 | 23.2 |
| 3–6 | 11.7 | 61.7 | 26.6 |
| Current marital status | |||
| Currently married | 5.5∗∗∗ | 65.5 | 29.0 |
| Cohabiting/living together | 6.1 | 81.7 | 12.2 |
| Others | 15.8 | 72.6 | 11.6 |
| Pregnancy intention | |||
| Unintended | 13.0∗∗∗ | 74.4 | 12.6 |
| Intended | 4.4 | 67.3 | 28.2 |
| Social structure variables | |||
| Mother's educational status | |||
| No education | 19.8∗∗∗ | 71.9 | 8.3 |
| Primary education | 7.4 | 79.5 | 13.1 |
| Secondary education | 2.8 | 65.5 | 31.7 |
| Tertiary education | 1.5 | 47.8 | 50.7 |
| Mother's occupation | |||
| Unemployed | 6.9 | 70.9 | 22.3 |
| Employed | 6.8 | 64.1 | 29.1 |
| Wealth index | |||
| Low | 6.4 | 77.9 | 15.6 |
| Middle | 6.7 | 72.6 | 20.7 |
| High | 7.2 | 59.3 | 33.4 |
| Health insurance | |||
| Yes | 0.0∗∗ | 60.9 | 39.1 |
| No | 4.7 | 71.6 | 23.7 |
| Type of residence | |||
| Slum | 8.4∗∗∗ | 76.3 | 15.3 |
| Nonslum | 3.8 | 54.5 | 41.7 |
| Ethnicity | |||
| Amhara | 4.8∗∗∗ | 68.9 | 26.3 |
| Guragie | 7.1 | 75.8 | 17.0 |
| Oromo | 8.0 | 74.1 | 17.8 |
| Tigraway | 1.8 | 54.5 | 43.6 |
| Others | 15.2 | 56.5 | 28.3 |
| Healthcare variables | |||
| Place of ANC visit | |||
| Public facilities | 6.7 | 70.7 | 22.6 |
| Private facilities | 1.7 | 30.0 | 68.3 |
| Counselled on danger signs of pregnancy | |||
| Yes | 5.1 | 68.0 | 26.9 |
| No | 7.9 | 75.3 | 16.7 |
Note. ∗∗ P < 0.01; ∗∗∗ P < 0.001.