Prevalence and determinants of socioeconomic inequality in caesarean section deliveries in Bangladesh: an analysis of cross-sectional data from Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey, 2017-18

Kumar, Pradeep; Sharma, Himani

doi:10.1186/s12884-023-05782-4

Table 4 Effect and contribution of predictor variables of caesarean delivery among women aged 15-49 in Bangladesh based on decomposition analysis, Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey, 2017-18

From: Prevalence and determinants of socioeconomic inequality in caesarean section deliveries in Bangladesh: an analysis of cross-sectional data from Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey, 2017-18

Background characteristics	Elasticity	CCI	Absolute contribution	% contribution
Women’s age (in years)
15–24
25–34	0.005	0.023	0.000	0.12
≥35	0.003	-0.017	0.000	-0.06	0.07
Women’s education
No education
Primary	-0.012	-0.272	0.003	3.68
Secondary	-0.009	0.046	0.000	-0.44
Higher	0.002	0.445	0.001	0.97	4.21
Working status
No
Yes	-0.009	-0.174	0.002	1.76	1.76
Mass Media Exposure
No Exposure
Exposure	0.017	0.207	0.004	3.82	3.82
Body Mass Index
Underweight	0.002	-0.177	0.000	-0.37
Normal
Overweight and Obese	0.013	0.311	0.004	4.37	4.00
Birth order
First
2nd order	-0.002	0.030	0.000	-0.05
3 or more	-0.011	-0.140	0.002	1.67	1.62
ANC visits
No visit
1–3 visits	0.012	-0.108	-0.001	-1.45
4 or more	0.033	0.172	0.006	6.13	4.68
Place of delivery
Public
Private	0.226	0.262	0.059	64.67	64.67
Husband’s education
No education
Primary	-0.009	-0.210	0.002	2.13
Secondary	-0.009	0.125	-0.001	-1.16
Higher	-0.001	0.452	0.000	-0.49	0.48
Husband’s occupation
Unemployed
Professional/Technical/Managerial	0.001	0.551	0.001	0.78
Sales	0.001	0.162	0.000	0.18
Agricultural	0.002	-0.356	-0.001	-0.78
Services	0.004	0.051	0.000	0.20
Skilled And Unskilled	0.004	-0.039	0.000	-0.15	0.24
Religion
Islam
Others	0.002	-0.084	0.000	-0.20	-0.20
Wealth Index
Poorest
Poorer	0.003	-0.378	-0.001	-1.03
Middle	0.002	0.021	0.000	0.05
Richer	0.004	0.412	0.001	1.57
Richest	0.014	0.807	0.012	12.66	13.25
Place of residence
Urban	0.000	0.398	0.000	0.00	0.00
Rural
Division
Barisal
Chittagong	-0.010	0.072	-0.001	-0.79
Dhaka	0.006	0.274	0.002	1.88
Khulna	0.004	0.022	0.000	0.11
Mymensingh	0.001	-0.222	0.000	-0.34
Rajshahi	0.002	-0.076	0.000	-0.13
Rangpur	-0.003	-0.330	0.001	1.04
Sylhet	0.003	-0.124	0.000	-0.35	1.41
Calculated CCI			0.092
Actual CCI			0.270
Residual			0.178

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