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. 2019 Feb 19;16(2):e1002749. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002749

Table 4. Delivery and postnatal care coverage and content for women’s most recent live birth delivery in the survey recall period, by country.

Country Delivery location Mode of delivery Newborn/postnatal care and practices
Percent of all deliveries in a health facility Percent of all deliveries in a hospital Percent of all deliveries by cesarean section Percent of all newborns weighed at birth Percent of all newborns breastfed within 1 hour of delivery
Singleton Twin p-Value Singleton Twin p-Value Singleton Twin p-Value Singleton Twin p-Value Singleton Twin p-Value
Kenya* 67.1% 80.5% <0.001 48.0% 63.0% <0.001 9.4% 25.2% <0.001 71.5% 76.2% 0.385 62.3% 53.0% 0.103
Malawi 93.7% 92.3% 0.367 36.0% 47.5% <0.001 6.1% 19.4% <0.001 92.5% 90.1% 0.210 76.5% 65.4% <0.001
Mozambique 61.0% 65.4% 0.335 20.7% 25.3% 0.190 4.4% 8.6% 0.005 60.5% 62.7% 0.641 75.9% 67.4% 0.038
Rwanda 92.2% 97.9% 0.042 27.2% 54.3% <0.001 12.7% 36.3% <0.001 93.6% 97.8% 0.101 79.3% 55.4% <0.001
Tanzania 67.9% 66.7% 0.792 35.3% 43.6% 0.109 6.7% 21.5% <0.001 68.4% 68.7% 0.948 52.0% 42.4% 0.088
Uganda 76.7% 75.5% 0.716 37.3% 42.3% 0.179 7.2% 11.9% 0.028 71.3% 67.2% 0.220 65.8% 54.9% 0.004
Zambia 72.9% 79.5% 0.109 24.9% 37.7% 0.001 5.1% 10.5% 0.009 73.7% 76.1% 0.575 65.1% 64.9% 0.962
Zimbabwe 82.1% 92.9% 0.025 40.0% 55.5% 0.014 5.8% 23.4% <0.001 85.5% 93.8% 0.025 57.3% 44.2% 0.025

Sample sizes as reported in Table 2.

*Kenya content of care indicators were only asked for a random subsample of the respondents; the sample sizes of singleton and twin deliveries were 7,056 and 111, respectively.