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Table 1 Demographic characteristics of postpartum Zimbabwean women at 9–18 months postpartum residing in five provinces, overall and by pregnancy intention, 2014a

From: Unintended pregnancy and subsequent postpartum long-acting reversible contraceptive use in Zimbabwe

 

Overall

Intended pregnancy

Unintended pregnancy

p-valueb

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

Total

10,224 (100)

7008 (100)

3215 (100)

 

Age (mean, SE)

(26.8, 0.10)

(26.8, 0.11)

(26.6, 0.11)

0.08

Education

   

< 0.01*

 No school

174 (1.7)

125 (1.8)

49 (1.5)

 

 Primary school

2301 (22.8)

1546 (22.1)

781 (24.3)

 

 Some secondary

2714 (26.9)

1819 (26.0)

934 (29.1)

 

 Grade “O” and above

4902 (48.6)

3516 (50.2)

1451 (45.1)

 

Ethnicity

   

<.01*

 Shona

8847 (87.7)

6285 (89.7)

2675 (83.2)

 

 Ndebele

611 (6.1)

333 (4.8)

291 (9.1)

 

 Kalanga

90 (0.9)

55 (0.8)

36 (1.1)

 

 Other

542 (5.4)

334 (4.8)

213 (6.6)

 

Marital status

   

<.01*

 Married and cohabitating

8108 (80.4)

5891 (84.1)

2311 (71.9)

 

 Married but not cohabitating

1179 (11.7)

799 (11.4)

402 (12.5)

 

 Divorced/separated/widowed

99 (1.0)

278 (4.0)

364 (11.3)

 

 Never married

175 (1.7)

40 (0.6)

138 (4.3)

 

Parity (mean, SE)

(2.6, 0.05)

(2.5, 0.05)

(2.7, 0.05)

<.01*

Province

   

<.01*

 Harare

3550 (35.2)

2438 (34.8)

1143 (35.6)

 

 Manicaland

2796 (27.7)

2059 (29.4)

776 (24.1)

 

 Mashonaland Central

1545 (15.3)

1096 (15.7)

472 (14.7)

 

 Mashonaland West

1389 (13.8)

958 (13.7)

451 (14.0)

 

 Matabeleland South

810 (8.0)

457 (6.5)

372 (11.6)

 

Number of ANC visits (mean, SE)

(4.8, 0.08)

(4.9, 0.07)

(4.4, 0.09)

<.01*

Asset index

   

0.27

 1st quartile

2125 (20.8)

1417 (20.2)

708 (22.0)

 

 2nd quartile

1988 (19.4)

1372 (19.6)

616 (19.1)

 

 3rd quartile

2289 (22.4)

1563 (22.3)

727 (22.6)

 

 4th quartile

3821 (37.4)

2656 (37.9)

1165 (36.2)

 

HIV status

   

<.01*

 Positive

958 (9.4)

545 (7.8)

448 (13.9)

 

 Negative or unknown

9265 (90.6)

6463 (91.7)

2767 (86.4)

 

LARC available at the local clinic

6173 (60.4)

4170 (59.5)

2003 (62.3)

0.05*

  1. *Significant at the p = 0.05 level
  2. aData weighted to account for varying sampling fraction across catchment areas
  3. bContinuous data assessed using t-tests; categorical data assessed using chi-squared tests