Understanding home delivery in a context of user fee reduction: a cross-sectional mixed methods study in rural Burkina Faso

Table 1 Variables, their distribution in the study sample, and the expected coefficient sign (Observations (women) = 420; Clusters (villages) = 54)

Variables	Measurement	N	%	Expected coefficient sign
Home delivery		47	11	NA
Woman’s age	0 = ≤ 25 years	214	51	-
Woman’s age	1 = ≥ 26 years	206	49
Woman’s literacy	0 = Illiterate	366	87	-
Woman’s literacy	1 = Literate	54	13
Marital status	0 = Other	308	73	+
Marital status	1 = Polygamous marriage	112	27
History of miscarriage	0 = Had no miscarriage	346	82	+
History of miscarriage	1 = Had miscarriage	74	18
History of ANC attendance	0 = At least 4 ANC visits	145	35	+
History of ANC attendance	1 = Less than 4 ANC visits	275	65
Household head’s literacy	0 = Illiterate	270	64	-
Household head’s literacy	1 = Literate	150	35
Household socio-economic status (quartiles)	1 = Poorest	NA	NA	-
Household socio-economic status (quartiles)	4 = Least poor	NA	NA
Distance to referral CSPS	0 = ≤ 6 km	263	63	+
Distance to referral CSPS	1 = ≥ 7 km	157	37
Location of residence	0 = Within HDSS area	117	28	+
Location of residence	1 = Outside HDSS area	303	72

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