Postnatal Care Service Utilization and Associated Factors among Women Who Gave Birth in the Last 12 Months prior to the Study in Debre Markos Town, Northwestern Ethiopia: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Table 1

Sociodemographic characteristics of the study participants at Debremarkos town, December 2014 ().

Variables	Frequency (%)
Age of the mother at interval (mean, SD: 28.5 ± 4.6)
<20	21 (3.6%)
20–29	353 (60%)
30–39	190 (32.3%)
40–49	24 (4.1%)
Marital status of the mother
Married	494 (84%)
Divorced	35 (6%)
Widowed	10 (1.7%)
Single	36 (6.1%)
Separated due to work	13 (2.2%)
Religion of the mother
Orthodox	509 (86.6%)
Muslim	63 (10.7%)
Protestant	16 (2.7%)
Ethnicity
Amhara	555 (94.4%)
Oromo	15 (2.6%)
Tigre	18 (3.1%)
Educational status of the mothers
Cannot read and write	107 (18.2%)
Can read and write	220 (37.4%)
Elementary education (1–8)	123 (20.9%)
Secondary education and above	138 (23.5%)
Occupational status of the mother
Merchant	91 (15.5%)
Housewife	220 (38.8%)
Farming	44 (7.5%)
Government employee	136 (23.1%)
Daily laborer	89 (15.1%)
Educational status of the husband ()
Cannot read and write	45 (8.9%)
Can read and write	80 (15.8%)
Elementary education (1–8)	94 (18.5%)
Secondary education and above	288 (56.8%)
Husband occupational status ()
Merchant	185 (36.5%)
Farming	67 (13.2%)
Government employee	193 (38.1%)
Daily laborer	62 (12.2%)
Average monthly income
<25	226 (38.4%)
25–75	186 (31.6%)
>75	176 (29.9%)
Source of information about PNC services
From health personnel	192 (32.7%)
From peers or neighbors	189 (32.1%)
From radio or television	207 (35.2%)