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Table 1 Maternal characteristics, facility type and district stratified by C-section occurrence

From: Caesarean sections in the in the context of the Chiranjeevi Yojana public private partnership program to promote institutional birth in Gujarat, India; does the embedded disincentive for caesarean section work?

Characteristics

All births

C-section No

C-section Yes

n = 2123

n = 1959

n = 164

 

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Age. Mean (SD)a

24.1 (3.54)

24.2 (3.58)

23.4 (2.97)

Education. Mean (SD)

5.1 (4.54)

5.1 (4.53)

5.5 (4.57)

Caste a

 ST

860 (40.5)

829 (42.3)

31 (18.9)

 SC

157 (7.4)

138 (7.0)

19 (11.6)

 Others

1106 (52.1)

992 (50.7)

114 (69.5)

Number of pregnancies Mean (SD)a

1.15 (1.30)

1.19 (1.32)

0.71 (0.91)

Antenatal care visits

   

 3 or more a

1558 (73.4)

1418 (72.4)

140 (85.4)

BPL card. Yes a

1920 (90.4)

1762 (89.9)

158 (96.3)

Wealth quintilesa

 Lowest

360 (17.0)

347 (17.7)

13 (7.9)

 Low

383 (18.0)

364 (18.6)

19 (11.6)

 Middle

433 (20.5)

400 (20.4)

33 (20.1)

 High

439 (20.6)

406 (20.7)

33 (20.1)

 Highest

508 (23.9)

442 (22.6)

66 (40.3)

Complications. Yesa

171 (8.0)

103 (5.3)

68 (41.4)

District a

 Dahod

775 (36.5)

739 (37.7)

36 (21.9)

 Sabarkantha

738 (34.8)

681 (34.8)

57 (34.8)

 Surendranagar

610 (28.7)

539 (27.5)

71 (43.3)

Facility typea

 Public

595 (28.0)

571 (29.1)

24 (14.6)

 Private-CY

1090 (51.4)

1010 (51.6)

80 (48.8)

 Private

438 (20.6)

378 (19.3)

60 (36.6)

CY beneficiary. Yesa

717 (33.8)

683 (34.7)

34 (20.7)

  1. aChi2 test or t-test p < 0.05