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. 2020 Aug 13;62(1):5093. doi: 10.4102/safp.v62i1.5093

TABLE 3.

Comparison of postpartum family planning uptake using the independent samples t-test.

Variable Levene’s test for equality of variances
t-test for equality of means
F Sig. t df Sig. (2-tailed) Mean diff. SE of diff. 95% CI
FP use
Equal variances assumed 61.647 < 0.001 −4.233 256 < 0.001 −0.220 0.052 −0.323 to −0.118
Equal variances not assumed - - −3.861 144.029 < 0.001 −0.220 0.057 −0.333 to −0.107

SE, standard error; FP, family planning; Sig., significance; df, degree of freedom; diff., difference; CI, confidence interval; F, F-statistic/F-value ; t, t-statistic.