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

Table 2

Binary logistic regression on place of delivery among women in Ghana.

Independent variable	Odds ratio	95% confidence interval
Educational level
No education	Ref	Ref
Primary	1.30	1.01–1.67
Secondary	1.84	1.40–2.42
Higher	5.94	0.73–48.06
Wealth index
Poorest	Ref	Ref
Poorer	1.16	0.90–1.49
Middle	1.60	1.14–2.23
Richer	4.72	2.42–9.21
Richest	3.28	0.38–28.27
Parity
One birth	Ref	Ref
Two births	0.82	0.57–1.16
Three births	0.79	0.56–1.12
Four births or more	0.66	0.49–0.90
Partner’s education
No education	Ref	Ref
Primary	1.50	1.13–2.01
Secondary	1.54	1.18–2.01
Higher	2.14	1.15–3.98
Distance to health facility
Big problem	Ref	Ref
Not a big problem	1.56	1.27–1.93
Getting money need for treatment
Big problem	Ref	Ref
Not a big problem	1.00	0.80–1.23
Ecological zone
Coastal zone	Ref	Ref
Forest zone	1.34	1.04–1.72
Savannah zone	1.37	0.95–1.97
Ethnicity
Akan	Ref	Ref
Ga/Dangme	0.80	0.47–1.34
Ewe	1.03	0.74–1.43
Guan	1.37	0.73–2.59
Mole–Dagbani	1.79	1.23–2.59
Grusi	1.47	0.89–2.40
Gurma	0.47	0.31–0.71
Mande	3.15	1.33–7.46
Other	0.44	0.19–1.03

Ref = Reference. ;  ;  .