Table 2.

Trends in 4+ antenatal visits and skilled birth attendance and selected independent variables

Variables	National		Southern Belt		Capital		Middle Belt		Northern Belt
	1998	2014	1998	2014	1998	2014	1998	2014	1998	2014
4+ Antenatal	64.86	87.71	62.78	87.95	76.11	91.59	65.77	89.36	59.53	80.7
Skilled Birth Attendants	46.22	75.99	42.12	74.03	75.96	93.18	53.67	81.07	17.2	54.02
Woman’s Education
No education	29.12	19.07	25.94	15.82	14.76	8.33	21.09	12.86	76.88	56.26
Primary	18.05	17.79	21.29	19.81	15.63	14.21	19.53	18.60	8.66	16.77
Secondary	50.58	56.80	50.74	59.63	63.84	63.78	58.29	63.42	12.95	24.64
Tertiary	2.25	6.34	2.03	4.74	5.78	13.69	1.08	5.13	1.51	2.34
Partner’s Education
No education	22.77	20.11	14.30	12.65	8.87	6.57	13.86	12.98	77.26	65.76
Primary	7.84	8.85	9.54	10.13	4.56	4.76	8.24	9.19	6.05	10.65
Secondary	60.66	58.87	65.44	66.04	73.67	68.28	71.19	66.91	11.24	16.66
Tertiary	8.73	12.17	10.72	11.18	12.90	20.38	6.71	10.92	5.45	6.93
Household Wealth
Poorest	20.26	16.09	18.63	7.96	2.33	1.82	16.30	9.59	57.61	68.60
Poorer	17.22	17.41	20.53	24.73	3.78	2.51	19.53	20.90	19.28	14.89
Middle	18.20	20.62	26.52	31.20	4.06	10.30	20.79	22.84	7.32	8.42
Richer	20.12	22.53	20.87	22.94	22.55	29.06	22.40	25.48	8.99	5.13
Richest	24.21	23.35	13.45	13.16	67.28	56.31	20.98	21.20	6.81	2.95
NSCPHGW (Mean)	.5659	.7961	.5066	.7457	.8425	.9384	.5249	.7746	.4822	.7498
NSCPHGT (Mean)	.0874	.2381	.0372	.1425	.3084	.5709	.0564	.2113	.0242	.1083

Source: Calculated by author using data from the 1998 and 2014 Ghana DHS. Note estimates uses sample weights