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Table 3 Primary reasons stated for home delivery

From: Home birth without skilled attendants despite millennium villages project intervention in Ghana: insight from a survey of women’s perceptions of skilled obstetric care

Reasons

Unweighted

Weighted

Per cent %

Frequency (n = 173)

Per cent %

Frequency (n = 17126)

Insults

23.7

41

23.5

4023

No transport

21.4

37

21.9

3756

TBA is good

17.3

30

17.9

3073

Cultural beliefs

13.9

24

13.5

2318

Sudden labour

6.9

12

7.4

1264

Delay

5.8

10

5.9

1015

Poor service

5.2

9

4.1

700

No money

4.6

8

4.4

753

Long distance

1.2

2

1.3

225