Table 1.
Cesarean section rate among non-pregnant women aged 15 to 49 years disaggregated by education, economic status, place of residence and region, the EDHS between 2000 and 2016
| Inequality dimensions | Category | Survey Years | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 2005 | 2011 | 2016 | ||||||||||
| Estimate | LB | UB | Estimate | LB | UB | Estimate | LB | UB | Estimate | LB | UB | ||
| Economic status | Poorest | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 2.4 |
| Poor | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 3.3 | |
| Middle | 0.1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 3.3 | |
| Rich | 0.2 | 0 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 1.5 | 0.7 | 3.09 | |
| Richest | 3.4 | 2.4 | 4.9 | 6.1 | 4.6 | 7.9 | 8.3 | 6.3 | 11 | 9.5 | 7.5 | 11.9 | |
| No-education | 0.1 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.75 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 1.51 | |
| Education | Primary | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 2 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 3.64 | 3.3 | 2.3 | 4.88 |
| Secondary or higher | 8.7 | 5.9 | 12.6 | 14 | 11 | 19 | 16 | 11 | 23.5 | 12 | 8.6 | 15.7 | |
| Residence | Rural | 0.1 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.68 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 1.77 |
| Urban | 5.2 | 3.5 | 7.7 | 11 | 7.7 | 14 | 9.6 | 7.3 | 12.5 | 13 | 10 | 16 | |
| Region | Tigray | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.31 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 2 | 3.4 | 2.2 | 5.26 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 3.8 |
| Affar | 1.5 | 0.6 | 4 | 1 | 0.2 | 4 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 7.66 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.84 | |
| Amhara | 0.1 | 0 | 0.51 | 1 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 3.11 | 3.2 | 2 | 5.01 | |
| Oromiya | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.91 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.08 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 2.26 | |
| Somali | 1.6 | 0.7 | 3.7 | 1 | 0.3 | 3.9 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1.26 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 2.12 | |
| Ben-gumz | 2.9 | 1.4 | 5.8 | 0.3 | 0 | 1.8 | 2 | 0.9 | 4.51 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 3.11 | |
| SNNPR | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.99 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 3.47 | 2.9 | 1.6 | 5.17 | |
| Gambela | 2.6 | 1.1 | 5.72 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 4.6 | 8.4 | 4.3 | 15.8 | 2.3 | 1 | 5.19 | |
| Harari | 2.7 | 1.5 | 4.6 | 3.9 | 2.6 | 5.8 | 8.6 | 5.9 | 12.2 | 8.8 | 6 | 12.7 | |
| Addis Ababa | 11 | 8 | 15.4 | 18 | 11 | 28 | 22 | 17 | 28.6 | 20 | 16 | 25.8 | |
| Dire dawa | 2.9 | 1.1 | 7.6 | 5.2 | 2.8 | 9.4 | 6 | 3.5 | 10.1 | 7 | 4.3 | 11.3 | |
| National rate of delivery by caesarean section (Ethiopia)a | 0.7 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.9 | |||||||||
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