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Table 2 Selected socio-demographic and household characteristics of women who gave birth in the last 12 months: Endline, 2014a

From: Creating spaces for dialogue: a cluster-randomized evaluation of CARE’s Community Score Card on health governance outcomes

Characteristic

Controls

N = 649

Treatment

N = 651

Age (years) (%)

 15–19

21.5%

16.5%

 20–24

32.3%

33.9%

 25–29

19.0%

21.0%

 30–34

20.2%

18.8%

 > =35

7.0%

9.9%

Religion (%)

 Catholic

17.9%

23.1%

 Presbyterian

11.3%

9.9%

 Other Christian

63.2%

59.8%

 Other

7.6%

7.3%

Ethnicity (%)

  

 Ngoni

88.9%

89.2%

 Other

11.1%

10.8%

Marital Status (%)

 Never married and never lived together

6.8%

3.9%

 Married/currently living together

87.2%

89.2%

 Divorced/separated/widowed

6.0%

6.9%

Reading level (%)

 Cannot read simple sentence

27.0%

31.4%

 Can read part of the sentence

9.3%

11.9%

 Can read the entire sentence

63.7%

56.7%

Parity (%)

  

 1

31.0%

25.7%

 2

20.8%

22.9%

 3–4

33.7%

33.9%

 5+

14.5%

17.6%

Nearest health facility providing delivery services (%)

 Less than 30 min on foot

21.3%

23.2%

 30–59 min on foot

24.7%

24.8%

 1–2 h on foot

34.9%

36.6%

 More than 2 h on foot

19.1%

15.3%

Household wealth (mean/SE)b

0.05 (0.09)

0.13 (0.08)

  1. Footnotes:
  2. aweighted percentages & means
  3. bcomputed from principal components analysis implemented using the Demographic and Health Surveys methodology (Rutstein & Johnson, 2004)