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Table 5 Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression of health facility childbirths adjusted by socio-economic, socio-demographic and proximate factors in Mbarali district, Tanzania in women aged 15–49 years (N = 1800) §

From: Factors associated with health facility childbirth in districts of Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia: a population based survey

 

Bivariates

 

Multivariate step 1

 

Multivariate step 2 (full model)

 
 

Rural

 

Urban

 

Rural

 

Urban

 

Rural

 

Urban

 
 

OR (95% CI)

p value

OR (95% CI)

p value

AOR (95% CI)

p value

AOR (95% CI)

p value

AOR (95% CI)

p value

AOR (95% CI)

p value

Underlying factors

            

SEP (1–16)†

1.11 (1.01-1.22)

0.028

1.10 (1.00-1.21)

0.050

1.11 (1.01-1.22)

0.024

1.10 (1.01-1.20)

0.043

1.14 (1.03-1.26)

0.009

1.09 (0.99-1.20)

0.110

Age (15–49)

1.00 (0.96-1.05)

0.898

0.96 (0.93-0.99)

0.017

1.00 (0.96-1.04)

0.855

0.96 (0.94-0.99)

0.021

1.00 (0.96-1.05)

0.915

0.98 (0.94-1.03)

0.365

Marital status

            

Married

1.00

0.375

1.00

0.991

1.00

0.433

1.00

0.766

  

1.00

0.712

Single/Divorced

2.61 (0.29-23.27)

 

1.01 (0.20-5.00)

 

2.34 (0.26-20.75)

 

0.80 (0.17-3.80)

   

1.63 (0.11-24.97)

 

Proximate factors

            

Trust-Quality (1–4)

0.92 (0.67-1.26)

0.598

1.58 (1.18-2.11)

0.004

    

0.85 (0.57-1.28)

0.428

1.63 (1.21-2.19)

0.003

Perceived cost (1–5)

0.97 (0.77-1.21)

0.759

1.58 (1.15-2.16)

0.007

    

1.10 (0.83-1.47)

0.501

1.65 (1.15-2.37)

0.009

Perceived distance (1–5)

0.85 (0.69-1.04)

0.112

1.06 (0.76-1.47)

0.723

    

0.88 (0.70-1.12)

0.296

1.00 (0.67-1.50)

0.998

ANC visits (0–9)

1.08 (0.96-1.21)

0.191

1.13 (0.99-1.29)

0.066

    

1.08 (0.93-1.26)

0.282

1.11 (0.90-1.37)

0.327

Ever HIV tested

            

Yes

1.00

0.133

1.00

<0.001

    

1.00

0.028

1.00

<0.001

No

0.65 (0.37-1.15)

 

1.14 (0.42-3.08)

     

0.52 (0.29-0.92)

 

0.27 (0.17-0.43)

 

Pseudo R squares

            

Nagelkerke

    

0.04

 

0.05

 

0.11

 

0.23

 
  1. §Women with childbirth in the previous five years before and until 2007 were included analysis.
  2. Significant odds ratios and p values indicated in bold. Odds ratios calculated by multivariate logistic regression using complex samples. All confidence intervals (CI) adjusted for clustering effect using SPSS Windows Version 19 with the standard enumeration area (SEA) as clusters.
  3. †The number in brackets indicates number of levels from lowest to highest for covariates that were entered in the model as continuous variables.