Table 3.
Antenatal care: attendance, timing and components
| Variable | Transnzoia | UasinGishu | ElgeyoMarakwet | Bungoma | Busia | Kakamega | Total average | National estimates |
| Where pregnant | ? | |||||||
| women seek | ||||||||
| health services | ||||||||
| Public health facility | ||||||||
| Private health | 724 (92.5) | 1007 (93.3) | 325 (99.7) | 1395 (99.2) | 1156 (94.3) | 1404 (97.7) | 6001 (96.1) | |
| facility | 8 (1.0) | 5 (0.5) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 15 (1.2) | 0 (0) | 28 (0.4) | |
| Other | 51 (6.5) | 67 (6.2) | 1 (0.3) | 11 (0.8) | 55 (4.5) | 33 (2.3) | 218 (3.5) | |
| Where pregnant | ? | |||||||
| women with | ||||||||
| complications are | ||||||||
| referred | ||||||||
| Public health facility | ||||||||
| Private health | 751 (96) | 1027 (95.2) | 324 (99.4) | 1394 (99.1) | 1102 (89.9) | 1402 (97.7) | 6002 (95.9) | |
| facility | 5 (0.6) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (0.1) | 1 (0.1) | 1 (0.1) | 8 (0.1) | |
| Don't know | 27 (3.4) | 52 (4.8) | 2 (0.6) | 11 (0.8) | 123 (10) | 32 (2.2) | 247 (3.9) | |
| Number of ANC | ||||||||
| visits | ||||||||
| None | 53 (6.8) | 40 (3.7) | 9 (2.8) | 22 (1.6) | 48 (3.9) | 132 (9.2) | 304 (4.9) | 4.0 |
| 1–3 | 147 (18.8) | 929 (86.1) | 163 (50.0) | 524 (37.3) | 617 (50.3) | 491 (34.2) | 2871 (45.9) | 38.1 |
| 4+ | 583 (74.5) | 110 (10.2) | 154 (47.2) | 860 (61.2) | 561 (45.8) | 814 (56.6) | 3082 (49.3) | 57.6 |
| First ANC in first | ||||||||
| trimester | ||||||||
| Yes | 425 (54.3) | 69 (6.4) | 34 (10.4) | 266 (18.9) | 125 (10.2) | 327 (22.8) | 1246 (19.9) | 30.2 |
| No | 283 (36.1) | 962 (89.2) | 276 (84.7) | 1094 (77.8) | 1035 (84.4) | 962 (66.9) | 4612 (73.7) | 68.2 |
| NA/ Don't Know | 75 (9.6) | 48 (4.4) | 16 (4.9) | 46 (3.3) | 66 (5.4) | 148 (10.3) | 399 (6.4) | 1.7 |
| Tetanus toxoid | ||||||||
| injection during | ||||||||
| ANC | ||||||||
| Yes | 693 (88.6) | 1021 (94.6) | 290 (89.0) | 1228 (87.3) | 984 (80.3) | 1187 (82.6) | 5403 (86.4) | 75.6 |
| No | 13 (1.7) | 40 (3.7) | 29 (9.9) | 171 (12.2) | 206 (16.8) | 142 (9.9) | 601 (9.6) | 24.4 |
| Not Applicable | 76 (9.7) | 18 (1.7) | 7 (2.1) | 7 (0.5) | 36 (2.9) | 108 (7.5) | 252 (4.0) | - |
| Hypertension | ||||||||
| testing during | ||||||||
| ANC | ||||||||
| Yes | 694 (88.6) | 1061 (98.4) | 311 (95.4) | 1205 (85.7) | 1167 (95.2) | 1248 (86.8) | 5686 (90.9) | 94.0 |
| No | 20 (2.6) | 1 (0.1) | 5 (1.5) | 193 (13.7) | 25 (2.0) | 82 (5.7) | 326 (5.2) | 6.0 |
| Not Applicable | 69 (8.8) | 16 (1.5) | 10 (3.1) | 8 (0.6) | 34 (2.8) | 107 (7.4) | 244 (3.9) | - |