TABLE 4.
Percentage distribution of providers who restrict eligibility because of minimum age, by type of methods, according to providers’ gender, age and specialization, Urban RH Initiative, Service Provider Survey, Senegal, 2011
| Providers’ characteristics | Public sector |
Private sector |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pills | Injectables | Condoms | Any of the 3 methods | Number of providers | Pills | Injectables | Condoms | Any of the 3 methods | Number of providers | |
| Provider’s gender | ||||||||||
| Male | 65.2 | 54.1 | 32.0 | 58.1 | 86 | 66.7 | 63.2 | 30.0 | 66.5 | 21 |
| Female | 44.0 | 38.9 | 16.4 | 44.7 | 430 | 54.9 | 39.0 | 23.2 | 51.0 | 100 |
| Provider’s age | ||||||||||
| <30 years | 47.5 | 42.6 | 18.0 | 48.5 | 66 | 55.0 | 45.0 | 31.6 | 54.5 | 22 |
| 30–39 years | 44.2 | 41.2 | 21.0 | 48.4 | 153 | 52.9 | 38.2 | 23.5 | 52.5 | 40 |
| 40+ years | 48.5 | 40.5 | 18.0 | 45.8 | 297 | 60.9 | 46.8 | 22.4 | 54.2 | 59 |
| Provider’s specialization | ||||||||||
| Doctor | 33.3 | 45.5 | 33.3 | 38.5 | 13 | 52.9 | 44.4 | 16.7 | 57.9 | 19 |
| Nurse | 62.0 | 51.9 | 31.0 | 57.3 | 131 | 70.6 | 52.9 | 40.0 | 60.0 | 25 |
| Midwife and others | 42.8 | 37.5 | 14.2 | 43.5 | 372 | 54.5 | 40.9 | 21.9 | 50.6 | 77 |
Notes: Chi-square tests assessed differences between samples’ distribution. Significant differences with P value less than 0.1 are displayed in bold Not many providers of pills, injectables and condoms are male in the public sector