Table 4 Characteristics of mothers with a birth in the prior 450 days
Round 1 | Round 2 | Test for Difference, Overall | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Control | Facility Only | Community Only | Facility and Community | Overall | Control | Facility Only | Community Only | Facility and Community | Overall | ||
Demographic Data | |||||||||||
Mean Maternal Age | 27.5 | 27.3 | 27.0 | 26.7 | 27.2 | 27.2 | 27.7 | 26.8 | 27.0 | 27.3 | 0.842 |
Mother’s age: < 20 | 11.9% | 11.1% | 11.5% | 11.8% | 11.5% | 11.8% | 9.2% | 10.8% | 12.8% | 10.9% | 0.645 |
Mother’s age:20–34 | 71.6% | 73.4% | 73.8% | 74.2% | 73.0% | 72.0% | 73.2% | 75.3% | 72.8% | 73.1% | 0.972 |
Mother’s age: > 34 | 16.5% | 15.6% | 14.7% | 14.0% | 15.5% | 16.2% | 17.5% | 13.9% | 14.4% | 16.0% | 0.721 |
Monogamously married | 56.2% | 57.0% | 61.3% | 58.4% | 57.7% | 57.8% | 56.4% | 65.7% | 54.4% | 57.9% | 0.946 |
Polygamously married | 42.6% | 41.2% | 38.7% | 41.0% | 41.2% | 40.5% | 41.6% | 33.7% | 43.6% | 40.4% | 0.712 |
Never married | 0.3% | 0.5% | 0.0% | 0.6% | 0.4% | 0.6% | 1.0% | 0.6% | 1.5% | 0.9% | 0.107 |
Widowed or divorced | 0.9% | 1.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.7% | 1.2% | 1.0% | 0.0% | 0.5% | 0.8% | 0.806 |
CRR | 42.3% | 46.7% | 44.0% | 55.1% | 46.2% | 47.4% | 47.0% | 45.2% | 55.9% | 48.4% | 0.300 |
NBR West | 10.5% | 8.8% | 7.9% | 7.9% | 9.0% | 10.1% | 10.9% | 11.4% | 9.2% | 10.5% | 0.251 |
URR | 47.2% | 44.5% | 48.2% | 37.1% | 44.8% | 42.5% | 42.1% | 43.4% | 34.9% | 41.1% | 0.083 |
Ethnicity: Mandinka/ Jahanka | 23.0% | 46.7% | 23.0% | 30.3% | 32.6% | 15.6% | 45.3% | 28.3% | 33.8% | 31.6% | 0.597 |
Ethnicity: Fula/Tukolor | 17.0% | 14.8% | 21.5% | 19.7% | 17.4% | 16.2% | 13.1% | 15.7% | 17.9% | 15.3% | 0.173 |
Ethnicity: Wolof | 20.7% | 9.8% | 31.4% | 24.7% | 19.3% | 28.9% | 14.6% | 34.9% | 28.2% | 24.4% | 0.003 |
Ethnicity: Sarahule | 35.8% | 26.4% | 20.4% | 19.7% | 27.3% | 37.0% | 22.9% | 18.1% | 17.4% | 25.6% | 0.369 |
Ethnicity: Other | 3.4% | 2.3% | 3.7% | 5.6% | 3.4% | 2.3% | 4.1% | 3.0% | 2.6% | 3.1% | 0.724 |
Average Number of Children Ever Born | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 3.8 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 0.146 |
Average Number of Children Surviving | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.5 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 0.180 |
Outcome Variables of Interest | |||||||||||
Referred to Delivery | 15.5% | 14.4% | 14.3% | 14.1% | 14.7% | 24.2% | 27.8% | 31.5% | 44.6% | 30.2% | 0.000 |
Accompanied to Delivery | 12.9% | 17.0% | 14.3% | 20.3% | 15.8% | 26.5% | 32.5% | 38.2% | 48.2% | 34.2% | 0.000 |
Transported to delivery | 4.3% | 6.9% | 6.3% | 4.0% | 5.5% | 12.5% | 11.1% | 18.2% | 23.8% | 14.8% | 0.000 |
Institutional Delivery | 56.2% | 57.3% | 55.0% | 66.7% | 58.1% | 55.7% | 57.9% | 64.2% | 63.4% | 59.1% | 0.620 |
Skilled birth attendence | 43.0% | 47.0% | 45.0% | 48.0% | 45.6% | 61.7% | 61.8% | 66.1% | 63.4% | 62.7% | 0.000 |
Community birth companion | 43.8% | 42.4% | 43.4% | 45.2% | 43.5% | 28.7% | 31.0% | 26.7% | 27.8% | 29.1% | 0.000 |
Skilled delivery at facility | 21.2% | 20.1% | 20.1% | 15.8% | 19.7% | 51.0% | 45.8% | 54.5% | 54.6% | 50.3% | 0.000 |
N | 352 | 398 | 191 | 178 | 1119 | 346 | 411 | 166 | 195 | 1118 | |