Table 4.
Factors contributing to the ‘Three Delays Model’, according to sociodemographic characteristics, Ethiopia DHS 2016
| Delivery by skilled provider* | Number of births | Problems in accessing healthcare by women aged 15–49 years† | ||||||
| Distance to health facility | Getting money for treatment | Getting permission to go for treatment | Not wanting to go alone | At least one problem accessing healthcare | Number of women | |||
| Types of residence | ||||||||
| Urban | 80.1 | 1 216 | 17.0 | 34.7 | 15.1 | 21.4 | 45.6 | 3 476 |
| Rural | 21.2 | 9 807 | 59.8 | 60.5 | 37.0 | 47.9 | 76.9 | 12 207 |
| Region | ||||||||
| Tigray | 59.3 | 716 | 37.4 | 46.1 | 15.3 | 24.6 | 60.7 | 1 129 |
| Affar | 16.4 | 114 | 54.3 | 51.7 | 28.2 | 41.8 | 66.6 | 128 |
| Amhara | 27.7 | 2 072 | 33.7 | 35.3 | 15.4 | 34.6 | 55.7 | 3 714 |
| Oromia | 19.7 | 4 851 | 68.9 | 70.1 | 58.3 | 57.0 | 82.9 | 5 701 |
| Somali | 20.0 | 508 | 47.3 | 63.0 | 25.7 | 32.2 | 72.6 | 459 |
| Benishangul-Gumuz | 28.6 | 122 | 57.4 | 62.4 | 36.5 | 43.8 | 76.8 | 160 |
| SNNPR | 28.6 | 2 296 | 52.7 | 59.1 | 18.4 | 39.5 | 75.4 | 3 288 |
| Gambela | 46.9 | 27 | 41.0 | 44.3 | 24.3 | 33.7 | 61.2 | 44 |
| Harari | 51.2 | 26 | 18.1 | 28.2 | 16.3 | 13.8 | 30.8 | 38 |
| Addis Ababa | 96.8 | 244 | 10.8 | 29.2 | 8.7 | 14.5 | 40.0 | 930 |
| Dire Dawa | 56.7 | 47 | 57.4 | 64.5 | 58.7 | 55.2 | 71.4 | 90 |
| Mother’s education | ||||||||
| No education | 17.2 | 7 284 | 59.2 | 62.9 | 37.6 | 47.1 | 78.0 | 7 498 |
| Primary | 38.6 | 2 951 | 50.3 | 55.7 | 31.9 | 43.2 | 71.1 | 5 490 |
| Secondary | 78.4 | 514 | 27.8 | 33.2 | 18.2 | 27.8 | 48.1 | 1 817 |
| More than secondary | 93.2 | 274 | 20.6 | 23.8 | 15.9 | 20.4 | 39.8 | 877 |
| Wealth quintile | ||||||||
| Poorest | 11.0 | 2 636 | 67.7 | 70.9 | 40.0 | 54.5 | 85.3 | 2 633 |
| Poorer | 20.8 | 2 520 | 66.8 | 67.0 | 42.1 | 52.7 | 82.9 | 2 809 |
| Middle | 24.2 | 2 280 | 59.4 | 61.0 | 35.2 | 47.6 | 77.3 | 2 978 |
| Richer | 28.5 | 1 999 | 49.8 | 50.2 | 33.8 | 41.2 | 68.2 | 3 100 |
| Richest | 70.3 | 1 588 | 22.1 | 35.2 | 17.0 | 23.4 | 47.7 | 4 163 |
| Total | 27.7 | 11 023 | 50.3 | 54.8 | 32.1 | 42.0 | 70.0 | 15 683 |
*Percentage delivered by a skilled provider (ie, doctor, nurse, midwife, health officer and health extension worker).
†Percentage of women aged 15–49 who reported that they have serious problems in accessing healthcare for themselves when they are sick, by type of problem, according to sociodemographic characteristics, Ethiopia DHS 2016.