Female education and maternal health care utilization: evidence from Uganda

Table 1 Summary statistics for the key study variables

Categorical variables	Control		Treatment		p-value
Categorical variables	N	Proportion (%)	N	Proportion (%)	p-value
Religion
Catholic	5028	37.45	13,692	47.49
Protestant	3836	28.57	8971	31.11
Muslim	1249	9.3	3643	12.63	< 0.001
Pentecostal	1663	12.39	1797	6.23
Others	1650	12.29	731	2.54
Residence
Urban	1528	11.38	4139	14.35
Semi-urban	9943	74.06	14,151	49.08	< 0.001
Rural	1955	14.56	10,544	36.57
Region
Central	4529	33.73	6772	23.49
Karamojong	299	2.23	2332	8.09
North	3893	29	7839	27.19	< 0.001
Western	1704	12.69	4651	16.13
Eastern	3001	22.35	7240	25.11
Sex of the household head
Male	11,946	72.94	24,999	70.13	0.161
Female	4431	27.06	10,648	29.87	0.074

Continuous variables	N	Mean ± SD	N	Mean ± SD
Age	16,377	24.66 ± 2.09	35,647	21.87 ± 2.13	0.091
Number of years of education	35,647	4.481 ± 4.87	16,377	6.27 ± 2.87	< 0.001
Number of siblings	16,377	6.40 ± 2.75	35,647	6.35 ± 2.85	0.844
Wealth Index	16,377	− 16,413.1 ± 89,111.38	35,647	− 10,938.4 ± 91,277.72	0.033
Observation = 52,024

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