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Table 1 Facility health committee members' profile

From: Overcoming barriers to access and utilization of maternal, newborn and child health services in northern Nigeria: an evaluation of facility health committees

 

Interviews (n=399)

Mean age

43.2

% femalea

19.8

% Muslim

92.5

% with Qur’anic education or no education

34.6

% with secondary or tertiary education

30.3

% farmer

28.8

% trader

22.6

Mean years of committee memberships

4.4

  1. a Gender of respondents was not noted in the questionnaire. This figure is the proportion of females in the facility health committees of the 33 selected facilities. Since response rate was about 90%, this figure approximates the percent of interviewed women.