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Table 1 Health facility, pharmacist, and PMV family planning providers’ background characteristics, Nigeria 2010

From: Contraceptive service provider imposed restrictions to contraceptive access in urban Nigeria

 

Health facility providers (n = 1,479)

Pharmacists (n = 415)

PMVs (n = 483)

Employee type

%

%

%

 Doctor

5.8***

0.0

1.0

 Nurse/Midwife

59.9

1.0

11.6

 CHEW

32.3

0.2

9.3

 Pharmacist

0.0

33.7

1.9

 Other Employee

1.8

65.1

76.0

 Missing

0.2

0.0

0.2

Sex

 Female

88.8***

46.0

37.3

 Male

11.2

51.1

55.9

 Missing

0.0

2.9

6.8

 Age (mean)

37.0

m

m

Religion

 Christian

68.9

m

m

 Islam/Other

31.1

m

m

City

 Abuja

12.8***

23.1

18.2

 Benin City

15.9

19.5

19.5

 Ibadan

16.2

22.2

17.2

 Ilorin

18.5

11.6

13.7

 Kaduna

24.3

18.8

16.4

 Zaria

12.3

4.8

15.1

Any FP Training Experience

 No

59.5

58.3

54.9

 Yes

40.5

41.7

45.1

  1. m Data are not available
  2. *p ≤ 0.05; **p ≤0.01; ***p ≤ 0.001; Chi Square tests of the association between demographic and provider type