Factors Influencing Women’s Preferences for Places to Give Birth in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Table 2

Odds ratios from multinomial logistic regression for preferences for places to give birth, Addis Ababa, January 2014.

Variables	Preferred place of delivery, AOR [95% CI]
	Home	Private facility
Age	0.90 [0.83, 0.98]	1.02 [0.97, 1.07]
Number of living children
0–2	0.24 [0.10, 0.56]	1.20 [0.71, 2.03]
3–6	1	1
Marital status
Currently married	0.70 [0.25, 1.91]	1.33 [0.61, 2.90]
Cohabiting/living together	0.51 [0.16, 1.66]	0.80 [0.32, 2.00]
Others	1	1
Mother’s pregnancy intention
Unintended	2.11 [1.03, 4.33]	0.57 [0.34, 0.94]
Intended	1	1
Mother’s educational status
No education	3.56 [1.38, 9.21]	0.18 [0.08, 0.40]
Primary education	1.20 [0.51, 2.85]	0.33 [0.22, 0.52]
Secondary and above	1	1
Wealth index
Low	0.63 [0.29, 1.38]	0.56 [0.37,  0.82]
Middle	2.79 [1.18, 6.61]	0.61 [0.31, 1.21]
High	1	1
Type of residence
Slum	1.32 [0.53, 3.24]	0.35 [0.24, 0.51]
Nonslum	1	1
Religion
Christian	1.19 [0.51, 2.78]	0.42 [0.27, 0.68]
Muslim	1	1
High risk pregnancy
Yes	0.89 [0.36, 2.19]	0.77 [0.48, 1.23]
No	1	1
Adequacy of ANC services
Inadequate	1.40 [0.31, 6.36]	0.40 [0.24, 0.67]
Adequate	1	1

Note. (; ; ). ANC: antenatal care, CI: confidence interval, COR: crude odds ratio, and AOR: adjusted odds ratio.