Table 1. Distribution of teenage and non-teenage mothers delivered at the health facility according to their background characteristics-NDHS 2011 (N = 5391).
| Sample | Institutional delivery | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | Total | Non-teenage mothers (n = 5010) | Teenage mothers (n = 381) | Non-teenage mothers (n = 5010) | Teenage mothers (n = 381) | |||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | % | % | |
| Place of residence | P<0.001 | P<0.001 | ||||||
| Urban | 503 | 9.34 | 479 | 9.56 | 24 | 6.42 | 70.86 | 80.6 |
| Rural | 4888 | 90.66 | 4531 | 90.44 | 357 | 93.58 | 30.32 | 48.21 |
| Ecological zone | P<0.001 | P<0.001 | ||||||
| Mountain | 428 | 7.93 | 400 | 7.99 | 27 | 7.18 | 17.48 | 38.72 |
| Hill | 2130 | 39.51 | 2001 | 39.95 | 129 | 33.76 | 31.01 | 35.57 |
| Terai | 2833 | 52.55 | 2608 | 52.06 | 225 | 59.06 | 39.21 | 60.11 |
| Education | P<0.001 | P = 0.032 | ||||||
| No education | 2549 | 47.29 | 2456 | 49.03 | 93 | 24.42 | 18.23 | 48.48 |
| Primary education | 1079 | 20.02 | 964 | 19.25 | 115 | 30.08 | 30.63 | 38.79 |
| Secondary education or higher | 1763 | 32.69 | 1589 | 31.72 | 173 | 45.5 | 61.05 | 58.85 |
| Occupation | P<0.001 | P<0.001 | ||||||
| Not working | 1553 | 28.80 | 1396 | 27.87 | 156 | 41.04 | 50.19 | 63.51 |
| Agriculture | 3692 | 68.49 | 3471 | 69.29 | 221 | 58.01 | 26.28 | 40.12 |
| Paid jobs | 146 | 2.71 | 142 | 2.84 | 4 | 0.95 | 70.25 | 100 |
| Husband’s education | P<0.001 | P = 0.166 | ||||||
| No education | 1244 | 23.07 | 1176 | 23.48 | 67 | 17.66 | 15.34 | 41.83 |
| Primary education | 1311 | 24.31 | 1214 | 24.24 | 96 | 25.29 | 23.31 | 49.18 |
| Secondary education or higher | 2801 | 51.95 | 2589 | 51.67 | 212 | 55.61 | 48.12 | 54.78 |
| Don't know | 36 | 0.67 | 31 | 0.61 | 5 | 1.44 | 12.78 | 0 |
| Ethnicity# | P<0.001 | P = 0.579 | ||||||
| Advantaged ethnicities | 1618 | 30.02 | 1552 | 30.97 | 67 | 17.49 | 43.77 | 51.61 |
| Relatively disadvantaged ethnicities | 2243 | 41.61 | 2080 | 41.52 | 163 | 42.73 | 30.88 | 45.52 |
| Disadvantaged ethnicities | 959 | 17.78 | 860 | 17.16 | 99 | 25.93 | 23.38 | 52.95 |
| Other ethnic minorities | 571 | 10.60 | 519 | 10.35 | 53 | 13.84 | 36.77 | 58.33 |
| Socioeconomic status | P<0.001 | P<0.001 | ||||||
| Poor | 2572 | 47.71 | 2389 | 47.69 | 183 | 47.93 | 15.44 | 36.02 |
| Middle | 2071 | 38.41 | 1900 | 37.92 | 171 | 44.91 | 41.44 | 58.42 |
| Rich | 748 | 13.88 | 721 | 14.39 | 27 | 7.16 | 77.27 | 94.79 |
| Parity | P<0.001 | P = 0.233 | ||||||
| Primi | 1832 | 33.99 | 1499 | 29.92 | 333 | 87.52 | 54.59 | 51.73 |
| Multi | 3559 | 66.01 | 3511 | 70.08 | 48 | 12.48 | 25.49 | 40.17 |
| Pregnancy intentness | P<0.001 | P = 0.044 | ||||||
| Intended | 4065 | 75.41 | 3797 | 75.78 | 269 | 70.54 | 36.16 | 46.09 |
| Unintended | 1326 | 24.59 | 1213 | 24.22 | 112 | 29.46 | 28.06 | 60.33 |
| ANC visit (n = 4149) | P<0.001 | P = 0.010 | ||||||
| No visit | 629 | 11.66 | 602 | 15.77 | 27 | 8.13 | 7.65 | 21.6 |
| 1–3 visits | 1442 | 26.74 | 1316 | 34.51 | 125 | 37.58 | 21.12 | 50.34 |
| 4 or more visits | 2078 | 38.54 | 1898 | 49.72 | 181 | 54.29 | 57.58 | 62.02 |
| Birth preparedness | P<0.001 | P = 0.012 | ||||||
| None | 2609 | 48.40 | 2415 | 63.3 | 194 | 58.29 | 26.82 | 47.16 |
| One | 1382 | 25.64 | 1251 | 32.8 | 131 | 39.38 | 52.09 | 62.28 |
| Two or more | 157 | 2.90 | 148 | 3.9 | 8 | 2.32 | 78.48 | 100 |
| Women autonomy$ | P<0.001 | P = 0.354 | ||||||
| No autonomy | 1424 | 26.76 | 2076 | 42.00 | 97 | 25.58 | 27.81 | 48.66 |
| Partial autonomy | 1984 | 37.27 | 1936 | 39.17 | 141 | 37.12 | 34.63 | 55.79 |
| Full autonomy | 1915 | 35.98 | 931 | 18.84 | 142 | 37.29 | 37.86 | 42.09 |
#Ethnicity is classified into three categories: ‘Advantaged’ category includes Brahmin and Chhetri ethnicities. Similarly, ‘Relatively disadvantaged’ group includes Janajatis, Newar and Muslims and the third category–‘Disadvantaged’ consists Dalits. Other unidentified ethnic groups were kept separately as ‘Other ethnic minorities’.
$Some missing values (n = 5322)