Table 4.
Results of the balancing tests after propensity score matching
| Covariates | All |
North |
South |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Difference | P-value | Difference | P-value | Difference | P-value | |
| Site type | 0.0342 | 0.6805 | −0.1415 | 0.2747 | −0.1701 | 0.2488 |
| Availability of water | −0.0478 | 0.5588 | −0.1649 | 0.0849 | 0.0833 | 0.5384 |
| Availability of electricity | 0.0765 | 0.3816 | −0.0054 | 0.9594 | 0.1632 | 0.2511 |
| Availability of a laboratory | −0.2064 | 0.1089 | −0.4624 | 0.0019 | 0.0451 | 0.8508 |
| Availability of a financial institution | 0.061 | 0.0704 | 0.08 | 0.0651 | 0.0313 | 0.4589 |
| Availability of a training institution | 0.0244 | 0.2598 | 0.04 | 0.1995 | 0 | 1 |
| # of maternity beds | −0.4667 | 0.7507 | −1.336 | 0.4264 | −1.0382 | 0.7209 |
| # of medical health workers | 0.4362 | 0.6511 | −1.1507 | 0.3138 | 0.8715 | 0.6414 |
| Sample size (N) |
Intervention |
Control |
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| Total | Gaza | Nampula | Cabo Delgado | Maputo | ||
| After matching | 134 | 30 | 48 | 39 | 17 | |
| Before matching | 147 | 35 | 50 | 43 | 19 | |
Note: Unmatched facilities were excluded from the study sample.