Table 1 Characteristics of participating, currently married women with at least one birth in last 5 years (n = 7451), Senegal DHS 2010
Variables | Freq. | Weighted | SE |
|---|---|---|---|
Mean or proportion | |||
Outcome | |||
Skilled birth attendant use at the last childbirth | 4251 | 66.30 | 1.27 |
Mediators: women's empowerment measures | |||
Household decision-making (mean, scored 0–3) | 0.92 | 0.03 | |
Attitudes towards violence (mean, 0–5) | 2.80 | 0.05 | |
Attitudes towards sex negotiation (mean, 0–2) | 0.60 | 0.02 | |
Age at first marriage (mean) | 18.29 | 0.10 | |
Demographics and perceived accessibility of health care | |||
Education (mean in years) | 1.79 | 0.08 | |
Current age | 29.40 | 0.12 | |
Household wealth quintile | |||
Poorest | 2264 | 22.38 | 1.31 |
Poorer | 1882 | 20.95 | 1.18 |
Middle | 1534 | 19.19 | 1.13 |
Richer | 1056 | 19.85 | 1.34 |
Richest | 715 | 17.63 | 1.12 |
Employment for payment | |||
Currently employed or employed last 12 months | 3386 | 46.04 | 1.12 |
Parity (total number of children ever born) | 3.81 | 0.04 | |
Marital relationships | |||
Monogamous union | 4909 | 68.19 | 0.83 |
Polygamous as 1st wife | 991 | 12.73 | 0.44 |
Polygamous as 2nd or lower | 1550 | 19.08 | 0.55 |
Household head | 322 | 4.98 | 0.38 |
Place of residence | |||
Urban | 2267 | 39.95 | 1.62 |
Rural | 5184 | 60.05 | 1.62 |
Perceived difficulty in accessing health care (Mean, scored 0-4) | 1.23 | 0.04 | |