Table 1.
Prevalence of delivery location switching among women with first two deliveries in survey recall period
| Country/region | Location of 1st delivery |
% of women with deliveries in facility |
General patterns of delivery location switching between first and second delivery (% of all women in switching analysis sample) |
% women in sample who switched delivery location |
Net direction of switching*(H->F minus F->H) |
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| Home (%) | Public facility (%) | Private facility (%) | 1st delivery (%) | 2nd delivery (%) | Consistent home (%) | Consistent facility (%) | Facility to home (%) | Home to facility (%) | Absolute difference (%) | 95% CI | ||
| Benin | 17.6 | 64.9 | 17.6 | 82.5 | 82.4 | 13.9 | 78.8 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 7.3 | −0.1 | −1.7 to 1.5 |
| Burkina Faso | 35.4 | 64.1 | 0.5 | 64.6 | 73.5 | 22.3 | 60.4 | 4.2 | 13.1 | 17.3 | 8.9 | 6.1 to 11.5 |
| Burundi | 25.0 | 68.4 | 6.7 | 75.0 | 71.3 | 13.5 | 59.7 | 15.3 | 11.5 | 26.8 | −3.8 | −8.3 to 0.8 |
| Cameroon | 32.7 | 44.5 | 22.9 | 67.4 | 66.0 | 27.3 | 60.6 | 6.7 | 5.4 | 12.1 | −1.3 | −3.9 to 1.3 |
| Chad | 83.1 | 14.2 | 2.7 | 16.9 | 13.5 | 80.2 | 10.6 | 6.3 | 2.9 | 9.2 | −3.4 | −6.8 to 0.0 |
| Republic of the Congo | 14.3 | 80.9 | 4.8 | 85.7 | 82.1 | 9.8 | 77.6 | 8.1 | 4.5 | 12.6 | −3.6 | −7.9 to 0.7 |
| Democratic Rep. of Congo | 27.8 | 54.2 | 18.0 | 72.2 | 73.2 | 19.1 | 64.5 | 7.7 | 8.7 | 16.4 | 1.0 | −3.9 to 5.8 |
| Ethiopia | 87.8 | 11.1 | 1.1 | 12.2 | 9.5 | 85.0 | 6.7 | 5.5 | 2.8 | 8.3 | −2.7 | −6.1 to 0.7 |
| Gabon | 7.4 | 71.5 | 21.2 | 92.7 | 90.4 | 4.3 | 87.4 | 5.3 | 3.0 | 8.3 | −2.3 | −5.7 to 1.2 |
| Ghana | 36.8 | 53.1 | 10.1 | 63.2 | 61.4 | 27.9 | 52.5 | 10.7 | 8.9 | 19.6 | −1.8 | −8.4 to 4.8 |
| Guinea | 65.7 | 32.0 | 2.3 | 34.3 | 27.6 | 62.2 | 24.1 | 10.2 | 3.5 | 13.7 | −6.7 | −10.8 to − 2.5 |
| Kenya | 48.4 | 44.0 | 7.6 | 51.6 | 41.7 | 41.1 | 34.4 | 17.2 | 7.3 | 24.5 | −9.9 | −15.7 to − 4.2 |
| Lesotho | 33.4 | 53.7 | 12.9 | 66.6 | 53.7 | 20.8 | 41.2 | 25.5 | 12.5 | 38.0 | −13.0 | −20.2 to − 5.7 |
| Liberia | 68.1 | 23.4 | 8.6 | 31.9 | 32.0 | 58.1 | 22.1 | 9.8 | 10.0 | 19.8 | 0.2 | −5.9 to 6.1 |
| Madagascar | 63.2 | 34.1 | 2.7 | 36.8 | 33.3 | 56.3 | 26.4 | 10.4 | 6.9 | 17.3 | −3.5 | −6.6 to − 0.4 |
| Malawi | 25.0 | 59.1 | 15.9 | 75.0 | 77.9 | 13.9 | 66.8 | 8.2 | 11.1 | 19.3 | 2.9 | 0.2 to 5.7 |
| Mali | 51.8 | 46.3 | 1.9 | 48.2 | 46.1 | 44.1 | 38.4 | 9.8 | 7.7 | 17.5 | −2.1 | −5.3 to 1.2 |
| Mozambique | 45.5 | 52.8 | 1.7 | 54.5 | 54.9 | 36.6 | 46.0 | 8.4 | 9.0 | 17.4 | 0.6 | −3.0 to 3.9 |
| Namibia | 16.1 | 81.0 | 3.0 | 83.9 | 77.5 | 9.1 | 70.5 | 13.4 | 7.0 | 20.4 | −6.4 | −11.6 to − 1.3 |
| Niger | 77.9 | 21.0 | 1.1 | 22.1 | 19.2 | 73.9 | 15.2 | 6.9 | 4.0 | 10.9 | −2.9 | −5.8 to 0.1 |
| Nigeria | 56.4 | 22.0 | 21.6 | 43.6 | 41.7 | 52.7 | 37.9 | 5.7 | 3.7 | 9.4 | −2.0 | −3.3 to − 0.6 |
| Rwanda | 16.7 | 82.6 | 0.7 | 83.3 | 84.0 | 8.2 | 75.4 | 7.9 | 8.5 | 16.4 | 0.6 | −2.3 to 3.6 |
| Sao Tome and Principe | 4.6 | 95.4 | 0.0 | 95.4 | 79.0 | 2.7 | 77.2 | 18.2 | 1.9 | 20.1 | −16.3 | −25.9 to − 6.9 |
| Senegal | 18.1 | 76.0 | 5.9 | 81.9 | 75.6 | 14.2 | 71.8 | 10.2 | 3.8 | 14.0 | −6.4 | −8.8 to − 3.8 |
| Sierra Leone | 68.0 | 28.4 | 3.6 | 32.0 | 26.4 | 62.2 | 20.6 | 11.4 | 5.8 | 17.2 | −5.6 | −10.3 to − 0.8 |
| Swaziland | 16.7 | 51.0 | 32.3 | 83.3 | 72.1 | 9.5 | 65.0 | 18.3 | 7.2 | 25.5 | −11.1 | −18.2 to − 4.2 |
| Tanzania | 38.3 | 50.1 | 11.6 | 61.7 | 54.2 | 30.9 | 46.8 | 14.9 | 7.4 | 22.3 | −7.5 | −12.0 to − 3.1 |
| Uganda | 30.6 | 54.1 | 15.4 | 69.5 | 64.4 | 21.3 | 55.2 | 14.3 | 9.2 | 23.5 | −5.1 | −9.5 to − 0.6 |
| Zambia | 42.9 | 50.9 | 6.2 | 57.1 | 52.3 | 33.2 | 42.6 | 14.5 | 9.7 | 24.2 | −4.8 | −9.4 to − 0.2 |
| Zimbabwe | 30.5 | 61.1 | 8.4 | 69.5 | 64.1 | 21.4 | 54.9 | 14.5 | 9.2 | 23.7 | −5.3 | −10.3 to − 0.4 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 48.7 | 39.3 | 12.0 | 51.3 | 48.7 | 42.4 | 42.4 | 8.9 | 6.3 | 15.2 | −2.6 | −3.5 to −1.7 |
| Bangladesh | 75.1 | 11.1 | 13.8 | 24.9 | 26.2 | 66.9 | 18.0 | 6.9 | 8.2 | 15.1 | 1.3 | −2.1 to 4.6 |
| Cambodia | 43.9 | 44.9 | 11.2 | 56.1 | 65.3 | 28.6 | 50.0 | 6.1 | 15.3 | 21.4 | 9.2 | 5.1 to 13.2 |
| India | 49.6 | 25.2 | 25.2 | 50.4 | 43.2 | 44.2 | 37.7 | 12.7 | 5.4 | 18.1 | −7.3 | −8.6 to − 5.9 |
| Indonesia | 52.1 | 10.4 | 37.5 | 47.9 | 47.6 | 46.4 | 41.9 | 6.0 | 5.7 | 11.7 | −0.3 | −3.3 to 2.7 |
| Maldives | 1.6 | 87.4 | 11.0 | 98.4 | 98.8 | 0.3 | 97.6 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 2.1 | 0.5 | −1.2 to2.1 |
| Nepal | 61.9 | 25.0 | 13.1 | 38.1 | 36.4 | 49.9 | 24.5 | 13.6 | 12.0 | 25.6 | −1.6 | −7.1 to 3.8 |
| Pakistan | 54.7 | 14.6 | 30.7 | 45.3 | 43.2 | 47.7 | 36.2 | 9.1 | 7.0 | 16.1 | −2.1 | −5.0 to 0.8 |
| Philippines | 44.1 | 34.5 | 21.4 | 55.9 | 46.1 | 40.1 | 42.0 | 13.8 | 4.1 | 17.9 | −9.7 | −13.4 to − 6.1 |
| Timor-Leste | 74.0 | 24.6 | 1.4 | 26.0 | 27.0 | 65.8 | 18.8 | 7.2 | 8.2 | 15.4 | 1.0 | −2.7 to 4.6 |
| South/Southeast Asia | 51.9 | 22.2 | 25.9 | 48.1 | 42.7 | 46.0 | 36.8 | 11.3 | 5.9 | 17.2 | −5.4 | −6.4 to − 4.3 |
| Overall | 50.9 | 27.2 | 21.8 | 49.0 | 44.5 | 44.9 | 38.5 | 10.6 | 6.0 | 16.6 | −4.6 | −5.4 to −3.8 |
| Country summary | ||||||||||||
| Minimum | 1.6 | 10.4 | 0.0 | 12.2 | 9.5 | 0.3 | 6.7 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 2.1 | −16.3 | |
| Maximum | 87.8 | 95.4 | 37.5 | 98.4 | 98.8 | 85.0 | 97.6 | 25.5 | 15.3 | 38.0 | 9.2 | |
| Median | 42.9 | 50.1 | 8.6 | 57.1 | 54.2 | 30.9 | 46.0 | 9.8 | 7.2 | 17.3 | −2.7 | |
*
Positive absolute difference shows switching pattern favours facility deliveries, negative favours switching to home delivery locations.