Impact of a maternal health voucher scheme on institutional delivery among low income women in Pakistan

Table 1 Characteristics of women who gave birth in D. G. Khan City, pre and post-intervention

	Pre-intervention (2008) % (n = 681) (1)	Post-intervention (2009) % (n = 742) (2)	p-value for chi-square test
Maternal Factors
Mean age of the mother	27.0	26.6	NS
Parity/Living children
1	21.0	23.0	NS
2	20.6	22.1
3	15.6	18.7
4	17.0	14.6
5 or more	25.8	21.6
Mother's education
None	34.7	31.1	NS
Any primary	17.3	15.8
Middle	14.8	14.4
Secondary	13.2	18.3
Matriculate or higher	20.0	20.4
Household Factors
Mother's autonomy
Low	32.5	33.0	NS
Medium	33.9	31.4
High	33.6	35.6
Wealth quintiles
Fifth/poorest	19.4	19.4	NS
Fourth	19.8	20.4
Third	20.1	18.9
Second	18.8	18.6
First/least poor	21.9	22.8
Program Factors Unrelated to the Scheme
Travel time to nearest health facility
More than five minutes	66.7	66.4	NS
Five minutes or less	33.3	33.6
Mass Media Exposure
Do not watch television daily	33.3	34.2	NS
Watch television daily	66.7	65.8
Exposure to the voucher scheme
No exposure	-	77.2
Visited by voucher outreach worker	-	9.3
Visited by worker and purchased voucher	-	13.5
Total	100.0	100.0

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