Is a woman’s first pregnancy outcome related to her years of schooling? An assessment of women’s adolescent pregnancy outcomes and subsequent educational attainment in Ghana

Table 4 Bivariate analyses showing years of schooling by pregnancy outcome (all and ever pregnant women)

Characteristics	Coef.	Std. Err.	Coef.	Std. Err.	Coef.	Std. Err.	Coef.	Std. Err.
All women	All ages		20–29 years		30–39 years		40–49 years
Pregnancy Outcomes
Live Birth (RC)	0.000		0.000		0.000		0.000
Spontaneous	0.344	0.293	0.545	0.437	−0.304	0.505	0.648	0.570
Induced	3.595***	0.205	3.163***	0.300	3.416***	0.335	4.518***	0.449
No pregnancy	2.070***	0.103	3.074***	0.156	1.282***	0.168	0.670**	0.213
Constant	4.384***	0.077	4.813***	0.124	4.165***	0.123	4.147***	0.148
Adjusted R²	0.0649		0.1096		0.0443		0.0491
N	8186		3386		2872		1927
Ever been pregnant women	All ages		20–29 years		30–39 years		40–49 years
Pregnancy Outcomes
Live Birth (RC)	0.000		0.000		0.000		0.000
Spontaneous	0.344	0.283	0.545	0.418	−0.304	0.500	0.648	0.565
Induced	3.595***	0.198	3.163***	0.287	3.416***	0.332	4.518***	0.445
No pregnancy	1.158***	0.106	1.716***	0.171	1.106***	0.169	0.558**	0.213
Constant	4.384***	0.074	4.813***	0.119	4.165***	0.122	4.147***	0.147
Adjusted R²	0.0489		0.0642		0.0423		0.0505
N	7208		2506		2799		1902

RC Reference Category, Coef. Beta coefficient, Std. Err. Standard Error; All estimates are weighted
Note: ***p < 0.001
**p < 0.01
*p < 0.05
+p < 0.10

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