Empirical analysis of socio-economic determinants of maternal health services utilisation in Burundi

Habonimana, Desire; Batura, Neha

doi:10.1186/s12884-021-04162-0

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Table 5 Regression results: the number of ANC visits

From: Empirical analysis of socio-economic determinants of maternal health services utilisation in Burundi

Explanatory variables		Sample (N = 8879)
Explanatory variables	Co-efficient	S.E.	95% p-value
Age (reference: 15–19 years)
20–34 years	0.107	0.182	0.558
35–49 years	0.088	0.199	0.659
Birth order (reference: 1st child)
2nd-3rd child	−0.243	0.089	0.006
4th–5th child	−0.401	0.109	0.000
6th child and above	−0.520	0.130	0.000
*Education (reference: none)*
Primary	0.114	0.062	0.066
Secondary	0.0	0.116	0.722
Tertiary	1.277	0.332	0.000
Occupation (reference: no)
Yes	−0.036	0.109	0.743
Religion (reference: Catholic)
Protestant	0.051	0.061	0.403
Muslim	0.270	0.149	0.070
Traditional	0.291	0.187	0.119
Health insurance (reference: no)
Yes	0.066	0.070	0.337
Marital status (reference: never married)
Legal union	0.714	0.196	0.000
Partnership	0.666	0.201	0.001
Divorced/separated/widowed	0.540	0.179	0.003
Decision-making power (reference: no)
Yes	0.119	0.076	0.116
Family size (reference: 1–5 people)
> 5 individuals	0.092	0.074	0.213
Husband’s education (reference: none)
Primary	0.012	0.067	0.854
Secondary	0.058	0.119	0.625
Tertiary	0.446	0.236	0.059
Husband’s occupation (reference: none)
Yes	−0.072	0.111	0.520
Child’s sex (reference: Male)
Female	0.017	0.541	0.747
Income quintile (reference: first)
Second	−0.006	0.086	0.948
Third	0.137	0.090	0.127
Fourth	−0.006	0.095	0.950
Fifth	0.062	0.118	0.601
Residence (reference: urban)
Rural	0.007	0.103	0.942
Easy access to a health facility (reference: no)
Yes	−0.026	0.061	0.673
Province
Gitega	0.457	0.161	0.005
Kayanza	0.333	0.164	0.042
Kirundo	0.400	0.158	0.012

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