Examining the mechanisms by which women’s status and empowerment affect skilled birth attendant use in Senegal: a structural equation modeling approach

Table 2 Factor analysis for indicators of empowerment (n = 7451), Senegal DHS 2010–2011

Latent construct	Aspects asked about by survey	Factor loadings (EFA)	t value (CFA)
Household decision-making	Decision on own health care	0.916	–
	Decision on major household purchases	0.869	38.927
	Decision on visits to family or relatives	0.851	42.613
Attitudes towards violence	Violence if she goes out without telling her husband	0.917	–
	Violence if she neglects the children	0.933	101.880
	Violence if she argues with him	0.963	122.107
	Violence if she refuses to have sex with him	0.911	101.322
	Violence if she burns the food	0.822	63.985
Gender norms for sex negotiation	Perceived ability in refusing sex	0.803	–
Gender norms for sex negotiation	Perceived ability in asking for condom use	0.771	8.305

In the CFA, the path of the first indicator is constrained to 1 (thus t value was not calculated). Significance of t values refers to unstandardized parameter values. All the factor loadings are significant at p < 0.05. RMSEA = 0.016, CFI = 0.998, TLI = 0.997, WRMR = 1.012

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