Table 1 Socio-demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of study sample
Characteristics | Weighted | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Non-MVP (n = 29163) %a | MVP (n = 11341) %a | Overall (n = 40504) %a | P-value | |
Age (Years) | 0.36 | |||
15-19 | 12.3 | 10.5 | 11.8 | |
20-34 | 71.7 | 78.5 | 73.6 | |
35-49 | 16.0 | 10.9 | 14.6 | |
Marital status | 0.01 | |||
Single** | 7.2 | 15.7 | 9.4 | |
Married/Cohabitating | 92.7 | 84.9 | 90.9 | |
Education level | 0.56 | |||
None | 22.3 | 20.2 | 21.8 | |
Primary | 19.3 | 26.8 | 21.4 | |
MS/JHS | 52.2 | 45.9 | 50.4 | |
SHS/above | 6.2 | 7.1 | 6.5 | |
Occupation | ||||
Farmer | 50.8 | 52.9 | 51.4 | 0.93 |
Trading (small scale) | 26.5 | 25.6 | 26.3 | |
Galamsey | 22.7 | 21.5 | 22.4 | |
Number of children alive | 0.41 | |||
1-2 | 48.7 | 40.9 | 46.6 | |
3-4 | 28.7 | 32.8 | 29.8 | |
5+ | 22.6 | 26.3 | 23.7 | |
Social economic atatus | 0.68 | |||
Low | 53.4 | 55.9 | 54.1 | |
High | 46.6 | 44.1 | 45.9 | |
Distance to health facility | 0.47 | |||
0-5 | 45.9 | 48.3 | 46.6 | |
6-10 | 37.4 | 40.0 | 38.1 | |
11+ | 16.7 | 11.7 | 15.3 | |
Average income of mother per day | 0.001 | |||
<2 Ghana Cedis ($1) | 60.0 | 78.7 | 65.2 | |
2-10 Ghana Cedis ($2-$5) | 26.8 | 20.4 | 25.0 | |
>10 Ghana Cedis (>$10) | 13.2 | 0.9 | 9.8 | |