Table 3.
Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of women who attend a local antenatal clinic and those who attend a nonlocal antenatal clinic, year 2012 (19 antenatal clinics).
| Rural women (N =1984)a | All women (N =7021) | |||
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| Rural clinics N (%) | Town and periurban clinics N (%) | Local clinics N (%) | Nonlocal clinics N (%) | |
| Total | 1660 (83.7) | 324 (16.3) | 5132 (73.1) | 1889 (26.9) |
| Age group | ||||
| 15–24 | 801 (48.3) | 167 (51.5) | 2533 (49.4) | 937 (49.6) |
| 25–34 | 639 (38.5) | 127 (39.2) | 2126 (41.4) | 804 (42.6) |
| 35–49 | 220 (13.3) | 30 (9.3) | 473 (9.2) | 148 (7.8) |
| Education | ||||
| None | 14 (0.8) | 6 (1.9) | 27 (0.5) | 9 (0.5) |
| Primary | 560 (33.8) | 93 (28.7) | 1026 (20.1) | 349 (18.5) |
| Secondary | 1071 (64.6) | 216 (66.7) | 3948 (77.2) | 1480 (78.5) |
| Tertiary | 12 (0.7) | 9 (2.8) | 111 (2.2) | 47 (2.5) |
| Occupation | ||||
| Employed | 73 (4.4) | 40 (12.4) | 751 (14.7) | 297 (15.7) |
| Housewife | 1551 (93.6) | 215 (66.6) | 4027 (78.6) | 1427 (75.6) |
| Student | 1 (0.1) | 1 (0.3) | 54 (1.1) | 10 (0.5) |
| Unemployed | 32 (1.9) | 67 (20.7) | 293 (5.7) | 153 (8.1) |
| Marital status | ||||
| Married | 1622 (98.0) | 285 (88.0) | 4863 (95.4) | 1796 (95.4) |
| Single | 19 (1.2) | 33 (10.2) | 197 (3.9) | 65 (3.5) |
| Divorced, Separated, Widowed | 14 (0.8) | 6 (1.9) | 38 (0.7) | 21 (1.1) |
ANC, antenatal clinic; N, number of women attending antenatal clinics.
a
Number of women (n) living in rural residential locations in 2012 who attend an ANC in the following location: city (n =16), town (n =175), periurban (n =149), rural (n =1660). Rural women attending city clinics are not included in this analysis.