Table 2. Percentage of eligible women age 15–49 using modern contraception, who had at least four ANC visits, and delivered their most recent birth in the five years preceding the survey in a health facility, according to migration status and selected background characteristics, Nepal DHS 2016.
| Variables | Modern contraceptive use (n = 8811) |
4+ ANC visits (n = 3220) |
Delivered at health facility (n = 3220) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % (95% CI) | χ2 p-value |
% (95% CI) | χ2 p-value |
% (95% CI) | χ2 p-value |
|
| Migration status | ||||||
| Urban-to-urban | 45.6 (41.7–49.6) | 0.059 | 89.9 (83.4–94.1) | < 0.001 | 87.5 (80.3–92.4) | < 0.001 |
| Urban-to-rural | 40.7 (33.8–48.0) | 71.9 (58.5–82.2) | 66.5 (52.6–78.0) | |||
| Rural-to-urban | 44.7 (42.1–47.3) | 76.4 (72.8–79.6) | 67.8 (63.1–72.1) | |||
| Rural-to-rural | 40.9 (37.8–44.1) | 62.4 (57.7–66.9) | 42.7 (38.1–47.4) | |||
| Urban non-migrants | 48.4 (43.9–52.9) | 76.0 (70.4–80.9) | 64.0 (55.5–71.6) | |||
| Rural non-migrants | 43.7 (39.4–48.1) | 61.0 (52.5–68.8) | 38.6 (30.4–47.4) | |||
| Age | ||||||
| 15–19 | 15.7 (12.4–19.7) | < 0.001 | 77.8 (71.4–83.1) | < 0.001 | 69.7 (62.2–76.3) | < 0.001 |
| 20–29 | 32.6 (30.3–34.9) | 72.8 (70.0–75.4) | 59.2 (55.6–62.8) | |||
| 30–39 | 52.6 (49.9–55.4) | 67.1 (62.5–71.4) | 52.1 (47.0–57.0) | |||
| 40–49 | 57.3 (54.3–60.1) | 45.6 (35.5–56.0) | 31.3 (21.6–43.0) | |||
| Education | ||||||
| No education | 53.4 (50.8–56.0) | < 0.001 | 52.6 (48.0–57.2) | < 0.001 | 35.1 (31.0–39.5) | < 0.001 |
| Primary | 43.4 (40.3–46.5) | 64.8 (60.2–69.2) | 47.9 (42.9–52.9) | |||
| Secondary | 34.8 (32.3–37.3) | 79.6 (76.4–82.5) | 68.9 (64.6–72.9) | |||
| SLC and above | 35.3 (32.4–38.2) | 92.8 (90.4–94.7) | 84.6 (80.9–87.7) | |||
| Caste/ethnicity | ||||||
| Brahman/Chhetri | 41.3 (39.1–43.5) | < 0.001 | 81.0 (77.1–84.3) | < 0.001 | 69.6 (64.5–74.2) | < 0.001 |
| Terai caste | 45.1 (41.6–48.8) | 61.4 (54.3–68.1) | 43.9 (37.4–50.7) | |||
| Dalit | 44.2 (40.4–48.1) | 63.1 (57.1–68.7) | 46.7 (40.6–52.9) | |||
| Janajati | 47.6 (44.7–50.5) | 72.6 (68.1–76.6) | 60.4 (54.9–65.6) | |||
| Muslim | 29.5 (22.8–37.2) | 56.5 (41.9–70.1) | 42.2 (30.3–55.1) | |||
| Occupation | ||||||
| Not working | 36.5 (34.0–39.0) | < 0.001 | 69.9 (65.4–74.0) | 0.001 | 61.4 (57.0–65.5) | < 0.001 |
| Non-agriculture | 46.3 (43.7–48.9) | 81.3 (75.8–85.7) | 75.2 (68.3–81.1) | |||
| Agriculture | 47.5 (45.0–50.0) | 69.0 (65.8–72.0) | 49.7 (45.9–53.5) | |||
| Wealth quintile | ||||||
| First | 42.6 (39.2–45.9) | 0.538 | 56.9 (51.8–61.8) | < 0.001 | 35.0 (29.6–40.8) | < 0.001 |
| Second | 45.8 (42.8–48.9) | 67.7 (63.1–72.1) | 46.8 (42.0–51.5) | |||
| Middle | 44.8 (41.7–48.0) | 70.3 (64.7–75.3) | 58.6 (53.6–63.5) | |||
| Fourth | 43.0 (40.0–46.2) | 77.9 (73.5–81.8) | 70.8 (65.9–75.3) | |||
| Highest | 43.6 (40.7–46.6) | 90.4 (85.9–93.6) | 89.9 (85.0–93.4) | |||
| Total | 44.0 (42.4–45.6) | 71.1 (68.5–73.6) | 57.6 (54.4–60.7) | |||