Descriptive Statistics for Children from 31 sub-Saharan African Countries, by Analytic Sample and Mothers’ Retrospective Report of whether the Child Resulted from an Unintended vs. Intended Pregnancy

	Child Mortality Sample		Child Health Sample
	Mean/% (Standard Deviation)		Mean/% (Standard Deviation)
	Unintended	Intended	Unintended	Intended
Child Vital Status
Deceased	8.77*	11.44
Alive	91.23*	88.56
Child Health
Morbidity
Recently ill			47.89*	37.49
No recent illness			52.11*	62.51
Stunting
Stunted (1+ SD below WHO)			57.02*	55.02
Not stunted			42.98*	44.98
Child Characteristics
Female	49.54*	49.20	49.70	49.37
Birth Order	3.71 (2.47)*	3.48 (2.30)	3.82 (2.56)*	3.68 (2.37)
Time lag between birth and survey (in years)	1.78 (1.33)*	1.83 (1.33)	1.76 (1.30)*	1.81 (1.31)
Maternal and Household Characteristics
Marital Status (at time of survey)
Never Married	11.05*	4.28	12.92*	3.56
Monogamously Married/Cohabiting	59.11*	62.83	60.15*	66.31
Polygynously Married	21.25*	27.63	19.39*	25.3
Widowed	1.98*	1.49	1.66*	1.3
Divorced/Separated	6.61*	3.77	5.88*	3.53
Has married more than once	10.26*	11.14	8.74*	9.8
Age(at time of birth)
15–19 years old	19.26*	18.93	18.12*	14.44
20–34 years old	67.85*	70.13	65.77*	71.18
35+ years old	12.89*	10.94	16.11*	14.38
Highest year of school attained	4.21(3.87)*	2.91 (3.89)	4.66 (4.02)*	3.29 (4.14)
Muslim	29.11*	47.57	25.43*	43.62
Household Wealth
Poorest (reference group)	23.42*	26.41	22.06*	24.88
Poor	21.59*	22.09	20.81*	21.56
Average	20.11*	19.68	20.14*	19.59
Wealthy	19.27*	17.42	20.07*	18.15
Wealthiest	15.61*	14.40	16.92*	15.82
Female household head	22.32*	15.49	23.67*	16.61
Rural	72.81*	75.29	69.79*	73.1
N	189,571		106,193

^*p < .05 from tests of equal means (t-test) or proportions (chi-square) compared to intended pregnancies

Source: Demographic and Health Survey