Table 1 Women’s socio-demographic characteristics
From: Women’s overall satisfaction with health facility delivery services in Ghana: a mixed-methods study
Characteristics | N = 1130 | % |
|---|---|---|
Background characteristics of all participants | ||
Age (years) | ||
< 20 | 99 | 8.8 |
20–29 | 570 | 50.4 |
30–39 | 377 | 33.4 |
≥ 40 | 76 | 6.7 |
Unknown | 8 | 0.7 |
Education level | ||
None | 386 | 34.2 |
Primary | 253 | 22.4 |
Middle/junior high school | 355 | 31.4 |
Secondary | 103 | 9.1 |
Tertiary and above | 33 | 2.9 |
Marital status | ||
Married | 718 | 63.5 |
Cohabiting | 272 | 24.1 |
Divorced | 37 | 3.3 |
Never married | 103 | 9.1 |
Religion | ||
Christian | 598 | 53.0 |
Islamic | 132 | 11.7 |
Traditional | 285 | 25.2 |
Other | 58 | 5.1 |
Missing | 57 | 5.0 |
Socio-economic characteristics | ||
Wealth quintile | ||
Least | 227 | 20.1 |
Less | 233 | 20.5 |
Wealthy | 221 | 19.7 |
Wealthier | 223 | 19.8 |
Wealthiest | 226 | 20.0 |
Valid health insurance card possession | ||
Yes | 588 | 52.0 |
No | 542 | 48.0 |
Antenatal history | ||
Timing of pregnancy | ||
Got pregnant at the right time | 676 | 59.8 |
Wanted to get pregnant later | 353 | 31.3 |
Did not want to get pregnant | 10 | 8.9 |
Parity | ||
1 | 319 | 28.2 |
2–3 | 475 | 42.1 |
4–5 | 224 | 19.8 |
> 5 | 112 | 9.9 |
Background characteristics of FGD participants | N = 136 | % |
Age (years) | ||
< 20 | 16 | 11.8 |
20–29 | 58 | 42.6 |
30–39 | 50 | 36.8 |
≥ 40 | 12 | 8.8 |
Education level | ||
None | 49 | 36.0 |
Primary | 35 | 25.7 |
Middle/junior high school | 41 | 30.2 |
Secondary | 9 | 6.6 |
Tertiary and above | 2 | 1.5 |
Marital status | ||
Married | 90 | 66.1 |
Cohabiting | 31 | 22.8 |
Divorced | 7 | 5.2 |
Widowed | 1 | 0.7 |
Never Married | 7 | 5.2 |
Religion | ||
Christian | 71 | 55.0 |
Islamic | 17 | 13.2 |
Traditional | 33 | 25.6 |
Other | 8 | 6.2 |