Table 5.

Effect of power outage indices on caesarean section delivery (log odds)

	Full Sample	Rural houeholds	Urban households	Electrified households	Non-electrified households	Low-wealth households	High-wealth households
Frequency Index	−0.002	0.009	−0.022	−0.002	−0.001	0.014	−0.009
	(−0.018, 0.015)	(−0.013, 0.032)	(−0.046, 0.005)	(−0.018, 0.015)	(−0.123, 0.102)	(−0.02, 0.047)	(−0.033, 0.013)
Duration Index	0.0002	0.0004	−0.006	−0.0001	0.007	0.002	0.0001
	(−0.003, 0.003)	(−0.004, 0.006)	(−0.005, 0.004)	(−0.004, 0.003)	(−0.014, 0.025)	(−0.006, 0.009)	(−0.004, 0.004)
Urban	0.226*			0.238*	−0.831	0.186	0.354*
	(0.072, 0.364)			(0.106, 0.379)	(−2.327, 0.335)	(−0.241, 0.605)	(0.181, 0.542)
Electrified: No electricity access	−0.240	−0.141	−0.476			−0.392*	0.208
	(−0.6, 0.081)	(−0.57, 0.239)	(−1.479, 0.076)			(-0.838,–0.042)	(−0.928, 1.136)
Linear Monthly Time Trend	0.017*	0.018*	0.015*	0.017*	0.018	0.019*	0.016*
	(0.012, 0.022)	(0.012, 0.026)	(0.008, 0.024)	(0.012, 0.022)	(−0.018, 0.063)	(0.009, 0.031)	(0.01, 0.024)
Observations	9125	6088	3037	8472	653	3647	3652

Bootstrapped 95% CIs are reported in parentheses.

Included in most models but not shown in the tables are wealth index, mother’s education, mother’s age, parity, and religion. The full results are available from the authors upon request.

All columns include month and district-level dummy variables.

*Denotes statistical significance at the 5% level.