Table 1.
Characteristics of the study population
| 2004–2005 (N = 2480) | 2010 (N = 2275) | 2015–2016 (N = 2949) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Socioeconomic factors | ||||||
| Mother’s employment | ||||||
| Not working | 349 | 14.1 | 301 | 13.2 | 656 | 22.3 |
| Working | 2130 | 85.9 | 1974 | 86.8 | 2293 | 77.7 |
| Mother’s education | ||||||
| No schooling | 652 | 26.3 | 573 | 25.2 | 575 | 19.5 |
| Primary education | 1711 | 68.9 | 1522 | 66.9 | 1865 | 63.3 |
| Secondary and above education | 116 | 4.8 | 180 | 7.9 | 507 | 17.2 |
| Father’s education | ||||||
| No schooling | 432 | 18.6 | 381 | 18.0 | 330 | 13.7 |
| Primary education | 1716 | 73.6 | 1526 | 71.8 | 1653 | 68.5 |
| Secondary and above education | 183 | 7.8 | 217 | 10.2 | 430 | 17.8 |
| Household wealth | ||||||
| Poor | 1121 | 45.2 | 1033 | 45.4 | 1334 | 45.2 |
| Middle | 996 | 40.2 | 890 | 39.2 | 1107 | 37.5 |
| Rich | 362 | 14.6 | 351 | 15.4 | 509 | 17.3 |
| Health service factors | ||||||
| Place of delivery | ||||||
| Home | 1293 | 52.1 | 1106 | 48.6 | 1001 | 34.0 |
| Health facility | 1187 | 47.9 | 1169 | 51.4 | 1948 | 66.0 |
| Postnatal visits | ||||||
| None | 2282 | 92.1 | 1512 | 66.4 | 1860 | 63.1 |
| 0–2 days | 150 | 6.0 | 549 | 24.2 | 122 | 4.1 |
| 3–42 days | 46 | 1.9 | 214 | 9.4 | 966 | 32.8 |
| Antenatal visits | ||||||
| None | 78 | 3.1 | 60 | 2.6 | 74 | 2.5 |
| 1–3 | 927 | 37.3 | 1257 | 55.2 | 1392 | 47.2 |
| 4+ | 1473 | 59.6 | 958 | 42.1 | 1482 | 50.3 |
| Delivery assistance | ||||||
| Health professional | 1151 | 48.6 | 1147 | 51.4 | 385 | 40.8 |
| Traditional birth attendance | 217 | 9.1 | 282 | 12.6 | 5 | 0.6 |
| Other untrained personnel | 999 | 42.2 | 803 | 36.0 | 551 | 58.6 |
n and % are the weighted count and proportion for each variable, respectively