Table 2 Distribution of women aged 15–49 by background variables related to maternal and child healthcare services (based on p-values and Chi-square )
From: Factors influencing the use of maternal healthcare services and childhood immunization in Swaziland
Variables | Maternal health | Child health | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Antenatal care | Delivery care | Postnatal care | Immunization | |||||
P-value | χ 2 | P-value | χ 2 | P-value | χ 2 | P-value | χ 2 | |
Woman’s age | 0.0** | 34.9 | 0.0* | 28.2 | 0.4 | 12.6 | 0.3 | 14.8 |
Parity | 0.0* | 20.2 | 0.0* | 129.6 | 0.6 | 3.0 | 0.1 | 6.8 |
Exposure to newspapers | 0.0** | 21.2 | 0.0* | 137.1 | 0.7 | 4.1 | 0.1 | 10.0 |
Exposure to the radio | 0.0* | 27.8 | 0.0* | 25.3 | 0.4 | 6.3 | 0.0*** | 13.9 |
Exposure to television | 0.0* | 30.1 | 0.0* | 134.6 | 0.1 | 12.3 | 0.2 | 8.5 |
Maternal education | 0.0* | 39.0 | 0.0* | 227.7 | 0.1 | 10.7 | 0.5 | 5.3 |
Wealth quintile | 0.0* | 31.4 | 0.0* | 302.7 | 0.0*** | 9.8 | 0.0* | 24.6 |
Literacy | 0.0*** | 8.2 | 0.0* | 65.6 | 0.1 | 3.9 | 0.0*** | 5.9 |
Residence | 0.1 | 6.0 | 0.0* | 106.9 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.0** | 10.2 |