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Table 1 Distribution of respondents by place of ANC, delivery and PNC

From: Analysing the expenditure on childbearing: a community-based cross-sectional study in rural areas of Punjab (India)

Background Characteristics

Place of ANC

Place of Delivery

Place of PNC

Government

Private

Both

Government

Private

Home

None#

Government

Private

Age Groups

 Less than 20 years

15 (83.3)

1 (5.6)

2 (11.1)

10 (55.6)

6 (33.3)

2 (11.1)

7 (38.9)

8 (44.4)

3 (16.7)

 20 to 30

278 (78.5)

26 (7.3)

50 (14.1)

39 (67.5)

104 (29.4)

11 (3.1)

162 (45.8)

108 (30.5)

84 (23.7)

 30 and above

29 (60.4)

9 (18.8)

10 (20.8)

22 (45.8)

26 (54.2)

0 (0.0)

16 (33.3)

11 (22.9)

21 (43.8)

Education

 Nil

67 (94.4)

1 (1.4)

3 (4.2)

60 (84.5)

7 (9.9)

4 (5.6)

44 (62.0)

23 (32.4)

4 (5.6)

 Up to Primary

56 (87.5)

3 (4.7)

5 (7.8)

49 (76.6)

11 (17.2)

4 (6.3)

36 (56.3)

21 (32.8)

7 (10.9)

 Up to Secondary

135 (80.4)

11 (6.5)

22 (13.1)

116 (69.0)

48 (28.6)

4 (2.4)

69 (41.1)

58 (34.5)

41 (24.4)

 Senior Secondary and above

64 (54.7)

21 (17.9)

32 (27.4)

46 (39.3)

70 (59.8)

1 (0.9)

36 (30.8)

25 (21.4)

56 (47.9)

Birth Parity

 Less than 2

123 (74.5)

15 (9.1)

27 (16.4)

101 (61.2)

60 (36.4)

4 (2.4)

56 (33.9)

58 (35.2)

51 (30.9)

 2 to 4

173 (76.2)

20 (8.8)

34 (15.0

148 (65.2)

70 (30.8)

9 (4.0)

113 (49.8)

62 (27.3)

52 (22.9)

 More than 4

26 (92.9)

1 (3.6)

1 (3.6)

22 (78.6)

6 (21.4)

0 (0.0)

16 (57.1)

7 (25.0)

5 (17.9)

Wealth Quintiles

 First

78 (92.9)

2 (2.4)

4 (4.8)

67 (79.8)

10 (11.9)

7 (8.3)

51 (60.7)

28 (33.3)

5 (6.0)

 Second

73 (86.9)

2 (2.4)

9 (10.7)

63 (75.0)

20 (23.8)

11 (1.2)

36 (42.9)

34 (40.5)

14 (16.7)

 Third

68 (81.2)

3 (3.5)

13 (15.3)

54 (64.7)

28 (32.9)

2 (2.4)

37 (43.5)

24 (28.2)

24 (28.2)

 Fourth

60 (71.4)

8 (9.5)

16 (19.0)

54 (64.3)

27 (32.1)

3 (3.6)

34 (40.5)

27 (32.1)

23 (27.4)

 Fifth

43 (50.6)

121 (25.3)

20 (24.1)

32 (38.6)

52 (61.4)

–

27 (32.5)

14 (16.9)

43 (50.6)

Overall

(76.6)

(8.6)

(14.8)

(64.5)

(31.4)

4.0)

(45.0)

(29.5)

(25.5)

  1. # includes those women who did not have any checkup post discharge from facility and those who delivered at home
  2. Source: Primary Data
  3. Figures in parenthesis are respective percentages