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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 31.
Published in final edited form as: Int Perspect Sex Reprod Health. 2016 Mar;42(1):21–31. doi: 10.1363/42e0116

TABLE 1.

Characteristics associated with in-facility and out-of-facility deliveries, Gaza province, Mozambique, 2004–2009

Characteristic In-facility(N = 972) Out-of-facility (N = 401)
Women
Age (yrs.) 29.6 29.9
No. of previous children 3.2 3.5
Education (yrs.) 3.2 2.6
% in polygamous marriage 20.9 20.2
% whose husband migrates for work 41.7 36.9
Household material status score 2.1 1.9
% belongs to an organized religion 93.4 90.8
% had reproductive loss before last delivery 24.7 26.4
Institutional experience
No. of antenatal consultations before delivery 4.2 4.1
% had most antenatal consultations at nearest clinic 70.8 55.6
% had an HIV test during or before year of delivery 50.6 48.4
Service quality score of primary antenatal clinic§, 2.4 2.7
Spatial
No. of clinics within 10 km of woman’s home 2.0 1.8
Distance from woman’s village to nearest town (km) 23.7 20.4
Seasonal
% of deliveries occurred during rainy or high agricultural season 35.2 41.9

On a scale from 1 to 4.

§

Refers to clinic where woman had most of her antenatal consultations.

Notes: All values are means unless otherwise indicated. Sample includes only each woman’s last delivery. km=kilometers.