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Table 4 Tetanus toxoid immunization during pregnancy for the last live birth or stillbirth in the five years preceding the survey by religion and ethnicity

From: Inequities in accessibility to and utilisation of maternal health services in Ghana after user-fee exemption: a descriptive study

Background characteristic

Had tetanus toxoid injection

No tetanus toxoid injection

Don’t know

Total

Number of births

Religion

     

 Catholic

88.7

10.8

0.3

100

694

 Protestant

90

10

0

100

80

 Methodist

93.4

6

0.6

100

348

 Presbyterian

91.2

8.8

0

100

317

 Pentecostal/charismatic

90.2

9

0.8

100

1404

 Other Christian

87.8

11.8

0.4

100

836

 Moslem

92.5

7.5

0

100

896

 Traditional/spiritualist

72.5

27.5

0

100

207

 No religion

85.7

14.3

0

100

293

 Other

100

0

0

100

1

Ethnicity

     

 Akan

91.8

7.7

0.6

100

2248

 Ga/Dangme

85.9

13.9

0.2

100

404

 Ewe

85.6

14.3

0.2

100

644

 Guan

86.6

13.4

0

100

119

 Mole-Dagbani

88.9

11.1

0

100

548

 Grussi

91.9

7.7

0.4

100

246

 Gruma

84.3

15.5

0.3

100

343

 Hausa

95.2

4.8

0

100

62

 Other

88.6

11.4

0

100

463

Total

89.3

10.3

0.3

100

5077

  1. Note: Total includes 149 women with missing information on tetanus toxoid immunization.