Table 2.

Availability of health facilities providing PNC within three distance bands of rural household clusters in Malawi, Malawi SPA 2013–14 & Malawi DHS 2015–16

	Total		Regions
			Northern		Central		Southern
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Women who have no health facilities
within 5 km***	6088	31.5%	1205	32.5%	2450	37.2%	2433	27.0%
within 10 km***	463	2.4%	267	7.2%	113	1.7%	83	0.9%
within 15 km***	83	0.4%	54	1.5%	0	0.0%	29	0.3%
Women who have health facilities providing PNC
within 5 km***	11,719	60.7%	2289	61.8%	3395	51.6%	6035	66.9%
between 5 km and 10 km  (but none within 5 km)***	6743	34.9%	1061	28.6%	2882	43.8%	2800	31.0%
within 10 km***	18,462	95.6%	3350	90.4%	6277	95.4%	8835	97.9%
Type of facility providing PNC within 5 km
Clinic-level facilities***	1064	5.5%	179	4.8%	275	4.2%	610	6.8%
Health centers***	8955	46.4%	1261	34.0%	2675	40.6%	5019	55.6%
Hospitals***	3334	17.3%	1005	27.1%	809	12.3%	1520	16.8%
Type of facility providing PNC between 5 km and 10 km
Clinic-level facilities***	3364	17.4%	298	8.0%	786	11.9%	2280	25.3%
Health centers***	13,510	70.0%	1611	43.5%	4491	68.2%	7408	82.1%
Hospitals***	4662	24.1%	668	18.0%	1454	22.1%	2540	28.1%
Type of facility providing PNC between 10 km and 15 km
Clinic-level facilities***	4016	20.8%	543	14.7%	859	13.1%	2614	29.0%
Health centers***	15,707	81.3%	2344	63.3%	5591	84.9%	7772	86.1%
Hospitals***	6758	35.0%	992	26.8%	2098	31.9%	3668	40.6%

Total number of observations is 19,315

Column percentages were reported corresponding to the category

Observations belonging in different categories of facilities within each buffer are not mutually exclusive (i.e. one observation could be counted multiple times if it has a clinic-level facility, a health center and a hospital all within 5 km of where it is)

***p < 0.001; bivariate chi-square tests were performed (each level of facility vs. regions)