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. 2015 Nov 11;15:294. doi: 10.1186/s12884-015-0729-3

Table 1.

Percentage of eligible women interviewed, characteristics of women not inteviewed and interviewed and characteristics of analysis sample by country

Kenya Nigeria Senegal
Percent interviewed of eligible samplea Distribution among women intervieweda Analysis sampleb Percent interviewed of eligible samplea Distribution among women intervieweda Analysis sampleb Percent interviewed of eligible samplea Distribution among women intervieweda Analysis sampleb
City
Nairobi/Abuja/Guédiawaye 48.8 68.9 74.2 57.9 15.5 17.7 78.7 25.0 24.7
 Mombasa/Ibadan/Pikine 64.7 25.2 20.8 64.6 26.2 27.8 79.5 26.3 25.2
 Kisumu/Ilorin/Mbao 57.9 5.9 5.0 64.7 23.0 21.9 74.2 48.7 50.1
 na/Kaduna/na na na na 65.1 35.3 32.6 na na na
Age group
 15–19 41.8 9.4 14.1 62.8 16.2 17.6 75.2 20.8 24.2
 20–24 45.7 25.1 30.6 53.0 15.2 18.9 72.5 20.5 20.1
 25–29 51.6 23.6 22.2 59.5 18.7 19.1 74.2 16.5 16.7
 30–34 57.6 16.0 15.7 64.4 16.5 17.6 79.3 14.1 13.6
 35+ 65.7 25.8 17.5 73.2 33.5 26.8 81.4 28.1 25.4
Marital status
 Never married 39.5 25.7 33.2 56.1 30.1 31.9 77.4 38.4 42.3
 Ever married 59.5 74.2 66.8 67.5 69.6 68.1 76.2 61.5 57.7
 Missing 21.4 0.1 0.0 66.0 0.3 0.0 70.7 0.1 0.0
 Parity (mean) na 1.9 1.6 na 2.5 2.3 na 2.1 1.9
Education
 None/quaranic 57.3 3.8 3.2 66.1 10.1 9.5 70.3 32.7 31.9
 Primary 53.0 40.1 40.4 64.7 13.8 13.6 78.8 37.1 37.1
 Secondary 53.3 39.8 38.5 64.0 48.5 50.4 82.7 27.5 27.8
 Higher 49.0 16.3 17.8 61.6 26.7 26.5 73.2 2.7 3.2
 Missing 0.0 0.0 0.0 66.7 0.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Religion
 Catholic 51.7 22.0 22.3 64.6 5.0 5.6 81.0 7.2 11.5
 Protestant 51.8 63.9 65.3 61.0 42.0 43.8 81.7 1.1 1.8
 Muslim 58.0 12.0 10.6 65.6 52.2 50.0 76.2 91.6 86.3
 None/other/miss 55.3 2.1 1.9 80.9 0.7 0.6 93.0 0.1 0.4
Wealth
 Poorest 51.9 16.8 16.8 53.1 14.5 16.4 64.4 13.7 14.3
 Poor 54.3 19.7 19.3 63.7 17.9 18.0 81.6 22.3 21.3
 Middle 56.9 21.3 19.4 66.3 20.0 19.5 79.7 27.1 26.7
 Rich 54.6 21.7 20.3 67.9 22.4 21.2 79.1 20.6 20.5
 Richest 46.2 20.6 24.2 65.4 25.2 24.9 74.5 16.3 17.2
Worked in last 12 months 53.2 62.8 61.2 66.5 54.6 54.0 77.5 15.8 15.6
Total/Weighted counts 52.5 3007 3108 63.6 5008 4001 76.6 2044 2721

Nigeria - midterm eligible sample was 65 % of baseline sample in four cities; Kenya and Senegal - full sample eligible in three cities

aUses baseline weights

bExcludes women that were sterilized or infecund at baseline; uses midterm weights