Prevalence and Determinants of Rural-Urban Utilization of Skilled Delivery Services in Northern Ghana

Table 5

Determinants of skilled delivery (logistic regression).

	B	SE	Wald	Sig.	Exp (β)	95% CI for Exp (β)
						Lower	Upper
Frequency of ANC visits, at least 4	2.039	0.216	89.47	<0.001	7.69	5.04	11.73
Parity (reference: 1-2)			47.11	<0.001
3-4	1.066	0.238	20.12	<0.001	2.91	1.82	4.63
>4	2.177	0.335	42.21	<0.001	8.82	4.57	17.01
Distance from health facility <4 km	1.670	0.260	41.24	<0.001	5.31	3.19	8.85
High women autonomy	0.947	0.215	19.42	<0.001	2.58	1.69	3.93
Low perceived barriers	2.016	0.232	75.76	<0.001	7.51	4.77	11.83
Urban residence	0.462	0.203	5.15	0.023	1.59	1.07	2.37
Constant	−4.208	0.358	138.15	<0.001	.015

The set of predictors accounted for 53.6% of the variance in skilled birth attendance (Nagelkerke R square = 0.536).