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Table 5 Socio-demographic factors associated with institutional delivery, results from logistic regressions, Liban District, Oromia, Southern Ethiopia, June 2015

From: Institutional delivery service utilization and associated factors among women of reproductive age in the mobile pastoral community of the Liban District in Guji Zone, Oromia, Southern Ethiopia: a cross sectional study

Factors

Institutional delivery

Crude odds ratio

Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI)

No (%)

Yes (%)

  

Women age

    

  < =19

81 (91.0)

8 (9.0)

1.00

NA

 20–34

452 (86.8)

69 (13.2)

1.56

NA

  > =35

148 (81.8)

33 (18.2)

2.26

NA

 Total

681

110

  

Religion

    

 Waqefata

404 (86.1)

65 (13.9)

1.00

NA

 Islam

219 (85.2)

38 (14.8)

1.08

NA

 Protestant

58 (89.2)

7 (10.8)

0.75

NA

 Total

681

110

  

Women educational status

    

 Non-literate

631

102

1.00

NA

 Literate

50

8

0.99

NA

 Total

681

110

  

Women marital status

    

 Not in marital union

81

23

1.00

NA

 Married

600

87

0.51

NA

 Total

681

110

  

Months elapsed since last mobility by household

    

  < =5 months

53

6

1.00

NA

 6–59 months

344

64

1.64

NA

  > =60 months

284

40

1.24

NA

 Total

681

110

  

Time taken to reach nearest functional transport road

    

  < = one hour

455

96

1.00

1.00

  > one hour

226

14

0.29

0.45 (0.16,1.26)

 Total

681

110

  

Time taken to reach nearest health facility

    

  < = 2 hours

169

12

1.00

1.00

 3–5 hours

454

79

2.45

1.23 (0.47,3.22)

 6 hours

68

19

4.61

2.26 (0.68,7.56)

 Total

681

110

  

Perceived availability of transportation when labor started

    

 No

386

54

1.00

1.00

 Yes

295

56

1.38

0.58 (0.32,1.05)

 Total

681

110

  

Radio listening frequency

    

 Not at all

389

49

1.00

1.00

 Sometimes

227

51

1.78

1.33 (0.67,2.61)

 Most of time

65

10

1.22

1.02 (0.36,2.93)

 Total

681

110

  

Cattle owned in “Hawicha”

    

  < =4

217 (89.3)

26 (10.7)

1.00

1.00

 5–9

246 (82)

54 (18)

1.83

1.23 (0.60, 2.53)

  > =10

218 (87.9)

30 (12.1)

1.15

1.24 (0.53, 2.88)

 Total

681

110

  

Camel owned in “Hawicha”

    

  < =4

407 (88.7)

52 (11.3)

1.00

1.00

 5–9

189 (79.7)

48 (20.3)

1.99

1.53 (0.80, 2.91)

  > =10

85 (89.5)

10 (10.5)

0.92

1.38 (0.49, 3.89)

 Total

681

110

  

Goat and sheep owned in “Hawicha”

    

  < =10

340 (88.1)

46 (11.9)

1.00

NA

 11–20

259 (83.7)

50 (16.3)

1.43

NA

  > =21

82 (85.4)

14 (14.6)

1.26

NA

 Total

681

110

  

Readily available cash when labor started

    

 No

316 (94.3)

19 (5.7)

1.00

1.00

 Yes

332 (80.0)

83 (20.0)

4.16

2.79 (1.25,6.25)*

 Othersa

33 (80.5)

8 (19.5)

4.03

5.57 (1.53,20.32)*

 Total

681

110

  

Husband’s education

    

 No education

502 (87.3)

73 (12.7)

1.00

NA

 Primary education and above

98 (87.5)

14 (12.5)

0.98

NA

 Total

600

87

  

Family size

    

  < =4

146 (89.6)

17 (10.4)

1.00

NA

 5–6

153 (86.9)

23 (13.1)

1.29

NA

  > =7

382 (84.5)

70 (15.5)

1.58

NA

 Total

681

110

  

Decision maker for institutional delivery

    

 Husband and wife jointly

581 (86.6)

90 (13.4)

1.00

1.00

 Mainly wife

57 (75.0)

19 (25.0)

0.46

(0.47, 12.66)

 Total

638

109

  
  1. NA not applicable
  2. *: the test was significant at p- < 0.05
  3. a: either “I do not know” or “I do not remember”