Development of a tool to measure person-centered maternity care in developing settings: validation in a rural and urban Kenyan population

Table 1 Distribution of selected demographic variables

	Rural		Urban		Total
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Age: Mean (SD)	857	25.0 (5.9)	530	25.6 (4.8)	1387	25.2 (5.5)
Parity: Mean (SD)	856	2.8 (2.0)	530	2.1 (1.1)	1386	2.5 (1.7)
Marital status
Single	136	16	61	12	197	14
Partnered/Cohabiting	3	0	75	14	78	6
Married	676	79	382	72	1058	76
Widowed	32	4	1	0	33	2
Divorced/Separated	10	1	11	2	21	2
Highest grade completed
Primary or less	483	56	204	39	687	50
Post-primary/Vocational/Secondary	265	31	241	46	506	37
College or above	109	13	85	16	194	14
Literacy: reading
No, cannot read	36	4	2	0	38	3
Yes, but with some difficulty	127	15	33	6	160	12
Yes, Very well	694	81	495	93	1189	86
Literacy: writing
No, cannot write	30	4	3	1	33	2
Yes, but with some difficulty	140	16	29	6	169	12
Yes, Very well	687	80	498	94	1185	85
Interview language ^a
English	108	13	257	48	365	26
Swahili	254	30	274	52	529	38
Luo	495	58			495	36
Total	857	100	530	100	1387	100

^a For the urban sample this is the language the consent was completed in. The interview language was not specified

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