Table 1 Ranking equity gaps in percentage points difference (% points) in access to SAB and DTP3 coverage between the most advantaged and most disadvantaged sub-populations across four equity dimensions in 14 West African countriesa
Skilled Birth Attendance | DTP3 Coverage | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rural-Urban | Maternal Education | Wealth Quintile | Regional Difference | Median | Rural- Urban | Maternal Education | Wealth Quintile | Regional Difference | Median | Grand Median | |
Benin (MICS 2014) | 10.9 (1st) | 20.9 (3rd) | 30.3 (2nd) | 53 (7th) | 25.6 | 3.9 (6th) | 25 (11th) | 29 (10th) | 23 (6th) | 24 | 24.5 (6th) |
Burkina Faso (DHS 2010) | 32.1 (6th) | 33.8 (7th) | 46.7 (7th) | 60.7 (10th) | 40.25 | 2.4 (5th) | 4.8 (2nd) | 9.5 (6th) | 5.7 (1st) | 5.25 | 20.8 (4th) |
Côte d’Ivoire (MICS 2016) | 30.9 (5th) | 22.6 (4th) | 46.3 (6th) | 35 (4th) | 32.95 | 8.8 (10th) | 21.7 (9th) | 30 (11th) | 27.6 (8th) | 24.65 | 28.8 (7th) |
Gambia (DHS 2013) | 34.7 (9th) | 25.9 (5th) | 36.7 (3rd) | 57.8 (9th) | 35.7 | −6.9 (2nd) | −4.7 (1st) | −7.3 (1st) | 20.4 (5th) | −5.8 | 23.15 (5th) |
Ghana (MICS 2017) | 21.7 (3rd) | 37.5 (8th) | 40.6 (4th) | 32.8 (3rd) | 35.15 | −0.7 (4th) | 7.6 (3rd) | 4.5 (3rd) | 16 (3rd) | 6.05 | 18.85 (2nd) |
Guinea MICS 2016) | 48 (12th) | 39.3 (9th) | 70.5 (13th) | 67.1 (13th) | 57.55 | 23.1 (13th) | 33.5(13th) | 45.7 (13th) | 43.3 (12th) | 38.4 | 44.5 (13th) |
Guinea Bissau (MICS 2014) | 42.7 (11th) | 52.6 (14th) | 56.7 (8th) | 52.5 (6th) | 52.55 | 7.4 (9th) | 15.5 (8th) | 15.9 (7th) | 26 (7th) | 15.7 | 34.35 (10th) |
Liberia (DHS 2013) | 23.1 (4th) | 12.5 (1st) | 45.8 (5th) | 19.9 (1st) | 21.5 | −9.1 (1st) | 13.6 (7th) | 21.5 (8th) | 29.5 (9th) | 17.55 | 20.7 (3rd) |
Mali (MICS 2015) | 38.2 (10th) | 41.6 (10th) | 58.6 (10th) | 61.8 (11th) | 50.1 | 15.1 (11th) | 27.3 (12th) | 36.4 (12th) | 59.5 (14th) | 31.85 | 39.9 (11th) |
Niger (DHS 2012) | 61.8 (14th) | 50.7 (13th) | 59.2 (11th) | 66.7 (12th) | 60.5 | 21.4 (12th) | 24.7(10th) | 23.6 (9th) | 34.8 (10th) | 24.15 | 42.75 (12th) |
Nigeria (MICS 2016/17) | 34.2 (7th) | 48.5 (12th) | 72.1 (14th) | 67.7 (14th) | 58.1 | 25.5 (14th) | 64.9(14th) | 53.1 (14th) | 52.7 (13th) | 52.9 | 53 (14th) |
Senegal (DHS 2017) | 34.4 (8th) | 30.3 (6th) | 58 (9th) | 56 (8th) | 45.2 | 6.2 (8th) | 7.9 (4th) | 1.9 (2nd) | 38.6 (11th) | 7.05 | 32.35 (9th) |
Sierra Leone (MICS 2017) | 11.2 (2nd) | 14.8 (2nd) | 17.4 (1st) | 21 (2nd) | 16.1 | −0.8 (3rd) | 8.4 (5th) | 6.5 (4th) | 13.1 (2nd) | 7.45 | 12.15 (1st) |
Togo (DHS 2013/14) | 50.4 (13th) | 41.6 (11th) | 68.7 (12th) | 39 (5th) | 46 | 4.3 (7th) | 13 (6th) | 6.9(5th) | 19.9 (4th) | 9.95 | 29.45 (8th) |