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Table 2 Factors of institutional births, compared across time and between birth location in each time period

From: Impact of the roll out of comprehensive emergency obstetric care on institutional birth rate in rural Nepal

Institutional Birth Factors

2012 n (% of yes respondents)

2014 n (% of yes respondents)

Total n (% all respondents)

Home (n = 54)

Facility (n = 23)

P-valuesa

Home (n = 31)

Facility (n = 102)

P-valuesa

2012 (n = 77)

2014 (n = 133)

P-valuesa

Hospital is safer

47 (61.0)

22 (28.6)

0.42

27 (20.9)

102 (79.1)

<0.01

69 (89.6)

129 (97.0)

0.03

Priority on safety

6 (23.1)

20 (76.9)

<0.01

18 (22.0)

64 (78.0)

0.68

26 (33.8)

82 (61.7)

0.01

Priority on cost

2 (100)

0 (0)

>0.99

5 (12.5)

35 (87.5)

0.07

2 (2.6)

40 (30.1)

<0.01

Priority on distance

32 (91.4)

3 (8.6)

<0.01

9 (29.0)

24 (72.7)

0.63

35 (45.5)

33 (24.8)

<0.01

Priority on CEmOC

1 (100)

0 (0)

>0.99

4 (8.9)

41 (91.1)

<0.01

1 (1.3)

45 (33.8)

<0.01

Knowledge of CEmOC availability

10 (76.9)

3 (23.1)

>0.99

3 (3.2)

90 (96.8)

<0.01

13 (20.3)

93 (86.9)

<0.01

  1. a P-values are calculated from Fisher’s exact tests