What Influences Where They Give Birth? Determinants of Place of Delivery among Women in Rural Ghana

Table 1

Background characteristics and place of delivery.

Variable	Place of delivery		value
	Home	Facility
	(100%)	(100%)
Maternal age			0.107
15–19	23 (38.0%)	38 (62.0%)
20–24	153 (40.0%)	228 (60.0%)
25–29	206 (36.4%)	360 (63.6%)
30–34	223 (45.5%)	267 (54.5%)
35–39	165 (38.4%)	288 (63.6%)
40–44	93 (38.6%)	148 (61.4%)
45–49	45 (51.2%)	43 (48.8%)
Wealth index			0.000
Poorest	452 (53.7%)	389 (46.3%)
Poorer	301 (41.9%)	418 (58.1%)
Middle	138 (29.7%)	327 (70.3%)
Richer	13 (5.9%)	207 (94.1%)
Richest	3 (8.4%)	31 (91.6%)
Educational level			0.000
No education	468 (53.4%)	409 (46.6%)
Primary	213 (41.1%)	305 (58.9%)
Secondary	223 (26.4%)	620 (73.6%)
Higher	3 (6.9%)	38 (93.1%)
Ecological zone			0.000
Coastal zone	302 (34.7%)	569 (65.3%)
Forest zone	256 (34.4%)	490 (65.6%)
Savannah zone	348 (52.7%)	313 (47.3%)
Getting money needed for treatment			0.000
Big problem	531 (46.0%)	623 (54.0%)
Not a big problem	375 (33.4%)	749 (66.6%)
Ethnicity			0.000
Akan	296 (31.0%)	659 (69.0%)
Ga/Dangme	38 (43.0%)	52 (57.0%)
Ewe	104 (37.6%)	172 (62.4%)
Guan	16 (34.3%)	30 (65.7%)
Mole–Dagbani	181 (37.8%)	297 (62.2%)
Grusi	28 (37.9%)	46 (62.1%)
Gurma	217 (73.9%)	77 (26.1%)
Mande	5 (15.9%)	27 (84.1%)
Other	21 (66.8%)	10 (33.2%)
Parity			0.000
One birth	90 (27.5%)	238 (72.5%)
Two births	139 (36.6%)	240 (63.4%)
Three births	146 (34.9%)	273 (65.1%)
Four births or more	531 (46.1%)	621 (53.9%)
Partner’s education			0.000
No education	396 (56.0%)	311 (44.0%)
Primary	129 (40.9%)	187 (59.1%)
Secondary	361 (32.0%)	767 (68.0%)
Higher	20 (15.8%)	106 (84.3%)
Distance to health facility			0.000
Big problem	422 (51.8%)	392 (48.2%)
Not a big problem	485 (33.1%)	979 (66.9%)