Table 1.
Characteristics of interviewed pregnant women attending antenatal care in 2017–2018 in the DRC, within each of the 11 provinces
| Characteristic | Provinces | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bandundu (n = 335) | Bas congo (n = 119) | Equateur (n = 696) | Kasai Occidental (n = 183) | Kasai Oriental (n = 257) | Katanga (n = 727) | Kinshasa (n = 352) | Maniema (n = 92) | Nord Kivu (n = 446) | Sud Kivu (n = 885) | Oriental (n = 420) | |
| Scholarship—% | |||||||||||
| Primary or less | 47.0 | 40.7 | 65.2 | 56.4 | 55.8 | 59.9 | 24.4 | 37.1 | 61.4 | 54.8 | 77.2 |
| Secondary or technical | 53.0 | 59.3 | 34.8 | 43.6 | 44.2 | 40.1 | 75.6 | 62.9 | 38.6 | 45.2 | 22.8 |
| Location—% | |||||||||||
| Rural | 98.2 | 86.8 | 96.5 | 77.2 | 59.4 | 66.7 | 11.4 | 58.4 | 75.9 | 82.7 | 69.6 |
| Urban | 1.8 | 13.2 | 3.5 | 22.8 | 40.6 | 33.3 | 88.6 | 41.6 | 24.1 | 17.3 | 30.5 |
| Gestational age—weeks | |||||||||||
| Median | 24 | 30 | 26 | 22 | 24 | 28 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 28 | 28 |
| IQR | 20–28 | 25–36 | 20–31 | 18–28 | 16–30 | 24–32 | 20–30 | 20–30 | 21–32 | 24–32 | 22–32 |
| Mean (± SD) | 25 (± 7) | 29 (± 7) | 26 (± 7) | 23 (± 7) | 23 (± 9) | 27 (± 7) | 25 (± 7) | 26 (± 7) | 27 (± 8) | 29 (± 6) | 26 (± 6) |
| < 16 weeks —% | 7.7 | 3.1 | 6.2 | 10.3 | 22.5 | 5.9 | 8.1 | 5.2 | 5.5 | 0.9 | 4.4 |
| First pregnancy—% | 25.8 | 29.7 | 16.9 | 31.3 | 18.1 | 25.7 | 34.3 | 21.4 | 25.9 | 37.3 | 18.7 |
| First ANC visit—% | 43.8 | 40.2 | 62.7 | 63.3 | 61.4 | 42.5 | 42.6 | 44.5 | 50.9 | 57.9 | 54.5 |
IQR interquartile range