Trend of sociodemographic and economic inequalities in the use of maternal health services in Lao People’s Democratic Republic from 2006 to 2017: MICS data analysis.

Table 4 Mother’s facility-based postnatal visit within 6 weeks of delivery by sociodemographic and economic factors in the years 2011–12, and 2017

Variables	Year 2011–12 (N = 4318)			Year 2017 (N = 4451)			% change between years 2017 and 2011–12
Variables	n	%^a	95% CI^b	n	%^a	95% CI^b	% change between years 2017 and 2011–12
Overall	n = 4357			n = 4459
Overall	73	2.3	1.8–3.0	123	3.7	2.3–4.5	1.4
Mother’s age	n = 4324			n = 4451
15–19	7	1.5	0.7–3.2	10	2.2	1.1–4.2	0.7
20–24	21	2.2	1.4–3.4	28	2.7	1.8–4.1	0.6
25–34	35	2.7	1.8–3.9	69	4.6	3.5–6.0	1.9
35–49	10	2.3	1.1–4.6	16	3.9	2.3–6.7	1.7
Educational attainment	n = 4324			n = 4451
None	6	0.5	0.2–1.3	6	0.7	0.3–1.6	0.1
Primary	21	1.5	0.9–2.3	43	3.4	2.4–4.8	1.9
Secondary or higher	46	0.5	3.8–7.1	74	5.2	4.0–6.6	4.7
Area of residence	n = 4381			n = 4451
Urban	34	5.6	3.8–8.1	52	6.3	4.6–8.4	0.7
Rural with road	37	1.5	1.1–2.2	61	2.7	2.0–3.6	1.2
Rural without road	2	0.4	0.0009–1.6	10	2.8	1.1–6.7	2.4
Ethnicity	n = 4313			4407
Lao	54	3.9	2.9–5.3	92	5.0	4.3–6.8	1.5
Khmu	3	0.7	0.2–2.2	17	2.0	1.0–2.7	0.9
Hmong	4	0.9	0.4–2.4	9	1.0	0.5–2.4	0.1
Other	12	0.9	0.5–1.8	4	2.0	0.9–6.9	1.6
Wealth quintiles	n = 4318			n = 4451
Poorest	8	0.7	0.3–1.4	16	1.1	0.7–2.4	0.5
Poor	7	1.0	0.5–2.3	15	1.5	0.9–2.5	0.4
Middle	14	1.9	1.0–3.4	17	2.6	1.4–5.0	0.8
Rich	15	3.0	1.8–5.1	29	4.8	3.2–7.1	1.8
Richest	29	6.8	4.6–10.0	46	9.9	7.5–13.1	3.1

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