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Table 2 Facility characteristics

From: Development of integration indexes to determine the extent of family planning and child immunization services integration in health facilities in urban areas of Nigeria

Characteristic

Total (N = 400), n (%)

Facility type

 

 High volume

112 (28)

 Preferred provider

288 (72)

Ownership

 

 Publicly owned

164 (41)

 Privately owned

236 (59)

Level

 

 Primary

166 (42)

 Secondary

234 (58)

Location

 

 Abuja

48 (12)

 Benin

71 (18)

 Ibadan

62 (15)

 Ilorin

72 (18)

 Kaduna

92 (23)

 Zaria

55 (14)

Facilities that offer child immunization and/or child growth monitoring

339 (85)

Facilities that provide child immunization and family planning services

307 (77)

 

Mean value (SD)

Normal practice if client is interested in family planning information during a child health service visit

5.82 (2.23)

Normal practice if client is interested in hormonal family planning during child health visit

4.63 (1.97)

Score of days where both child immunization and family planning are offereda

0.14 (0.38, 0.02–0.4)

Proportion providers at facility who offer child immunization and at least 1 modern family planning method

0.56 (0.40)

Proportion providers at facility who routinely offer family planning information during child immunization/growth monitoring

0.58 (0.39)

Average family planning topics that a provider at a facility discusses with client during child health service visit

1.67 (1.52)

Proportion providers at facility that do not request partner consent for family planning during child health service visit

0.50 (0.37)

  1. See Table 1 for complete variable definitions
  2. aBecause of the preponderance of low scores, the median and interquartile range provide a clearer representation of the data for this item and are thus presented here