Table 1 The summary of some of the independent variables
Variables | Definition/categories | Reference |
|---|---|---|
Age of the mother | The of the mother was coded 15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, and 45-49; however, during cleaning some of the categories lack participants or very limited, we recoded to 15-29, 30-39, 40-49 | 15-19 |
Mother educational status | No-education, Primary, Secondary, and Higher | No-education |
Religion | Religion was Protestant, Orthodox, Muslim, Catholic, tradition, other. Depending on the number of participants we merged Catholic, Traditional, and Other and the new coding become Protestant, Orthodox, Muslim and others | Orthodox |
Marital status | Marital status was coded as never in union, married, living with partner, widowed, and divorced, no longer living together/separated; however, number of participants from the last four was very few, thus, we categorized unmarried and married by living married alone and classified all else. | Unmarried |
Place of delivery | It was coded as respondent’s home, other home, government hospital, government health center, government health post, other public health sector, private hospital, private clinic, Ngo health facility, NGO other health facility, and other. Because of statistically insignificant number of participant and some other similarities, we recoded to home and institutional delivery. | Home |
House wealth index | In EMDHS, household wealth index was categorized in quintiles as: poorest, poor, average, rich and richest and for this category, they used principal component analysis to make this category. Then, for easy decision making we re-categorized the scale in to poor, middle, and rich | Poor |
Birth order | It a count number ranging from 1 to 15; however, we categorized in to first, 2nd, and >=3 | First |
Parity | no birth, one birth, two birth, and three and above births | No birth |
Number of ANC | ANC coded as count number ranging from 1 to 20; however, to assist good decision making we recoded into No-visit, 1-3 visit, 4th –visit, and 5+- visit | No visit |
preceding birth interval | Preceding birth interval was coded from 1 to 219 months in the dataset. We recoded in to <15, 15-30,>30 months for the same reason as above | <15 |
Contraception | EMDHS coded the variable No-method, Traditional method, Modern method | No method |