Table 2. The trend in adjusted and unadjusted associations between type of provider and C-section in 1999, 2006, and 2016.
| Place of delivery | Unadjusted | Adjusted | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR | 95% CI | OR | 95% CI | ||||||
| Public(ref) | |||||||||
| Private | NFHS II (1999) | 1.69 | *** | 1.46 - | 1.96 | 1.39 | *** | 1.18 - | 1.64 |
| NFHS III (2006) | 1.98 | *** | 1.71 - | 2.28 | 1.59 | *** | 1.40 - | 1.81 | |
| NFHS IV (2016) | 5.20 | *** | 4.01 - | 6.74 | 3.71 | *** | 2.93 - | 4.70 | |
(All three waves were adjusted for age at pregnancy, birth order, baby gender, baby size, a plurality of pregnancy, short stature, BMI, smoking, drinking alcohol, maternal education, type of residence, caste, wealth level, ANC more than 4 times. History of delivery complication and terminated pregnancy, and health insurance status were excluded from the adjusted model for consistency across three waves) (***: p<0.001, **: p<0.01, *: p<0.05).