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Table 3 Means and ranges of community (Provincial) level characteristics across provinces in Zimbabwe

From: The social context of adolescent women’s use of modern contraceptives in Zimbabwe: a multilevel analysis

Characteristic

Mean

Standard deviation

Range

Quality to health care

   

• Quality to health care index

5.16

0.38

4.77 – 6.04

Access to health care

   

• % of women reporting at least one problem accessing health care

62.0

10.17

42.9 – 74.5

Socioeconomic development

   

• Mean number of children ever born per woman

2.1

0.32

1.43 – 2.52

• Mean number of years of school for women

8.9

0.81

7.70 – 10.28

• % of women with at least secondary education

67.8

11.03

52.2 – 87.2

• % of women using contraceptives with partners approving of family planning

96.8

1.33

91.5 – 98.6

• Contraceptive prevalence rate

57.4

3.92

45.2 – 61.6

• % of women accessing ANC at least once

89.7

3.00

86.7 – 95.9

• % of women who delivered their last child in a health facility

64.6

11.30

50.3 – 88.8

• % of women participating in labour force

43.9

12.45

19.2 – 60.6

  1. Source: 2010/11 Zimbabwe demographic health survey.