Table 2.

Socio-demographic and reproductive health characteristics of clients seeking post abortion care, Kenya 2012

Socio-demographic characteristics				Reproductive health characteristics
	%	Median Delay in Hours	N [Un-weighted]		%	Median Delay in Hours	N [Un-weighted]
Age category				Severity levelβ
10–19 yrs	16.6	72.8	335	Mild	22.8	28.0	723
20–24 yrs	55.0	48.9	1480	Moderate	40.0	30.2	1135
25 + yrs	28.4	49.1	808	Severe	37.2	74.3	773
Residence				Gravidity
Urban	40.9	50.3	1386	1	27.6	50.5	738
Rural	58.7	49.6	1238	2–3	51.2	49.1	1428
Marital status				4+	21.2	50.7	459
Never married	27.9	58.0	761	Previous abortions
Married/Living together	64.6	40.7	1700	None	93.2	49.1	2466
Formerly married	7.6	73.6	162	One or more	6.8	98.7	154
Education				Contraceptiona
No education	9.3	73.9	158	Using modern	29.5	70.1	787
Primary	40.2	49.9	963	Not using	70.5	48.0	1841
Secondary	35.6	50.4	952	Pregnancy wantedness
Post-secondary	14.8	28.2	543	Wanted then	40.1	27.9	1082
Occupation				Wanted later	27.2	52.6	647
Farmer/unskilled	24.9	53.3	589	Did not want	32.7	71.4	802
Skilled/clerical	20.2	30.1	684	Gestational ageb
Student	13.1	52.0	384	First trimester	59.3	50.8	1654
Unemployed/housewife	41.8	49.5	965	Second trimester	40.7	48.1	974
Religion				Referred from
Catholic	24.4	48.3	606	Not referred	75.2	48.6	1838
Other Christians	64.7	49.5	1767	Referred	24.8	71.0	793
Muslims	8.6	73.5	216
Others	2.3	97.7	30
Total	100		2631	Total	100		2631

^aDefined as the proportion of women who reported using any method of contraception or family planning before the time of conception of current pregnancy and then named a modern form of contraception, with modern contraception defined as pills, injections, implants, male/female sterilization, IUD, male/female condom, diaphragm, foam/jelly, emergency contraception or patch

^bBased on both client's recall of LMP and doctor's estimation from observation

Table shows weighted proportions and un-weighted counts