Modeling the Ranked Antenatal Care Visits Using Optimized Partial Least Square Regression

Table 1

Regression coefficient estimates of influential factors for PLS coupled with SMC.

Factor	Coefficient
Age of women	0.010
Type of residence	-0.036
Women’s educational level	0.061
Source of drinking water	-0.036
Age of household head	0.023
Frequency of watching television	0.022
Wealth index	0.052
Total children ever born	0.048
Births in last five years	0.016
Number of living children	-0.037
Ever had a terminated pregnancy	-0.034
Visited health facility last 12 months	0.021
Previous birth a caesarean section	0.047
Getting medical help for self: getting permission to go	-0.030
Getting medical help for self: getting money needed for treatment	0.045
Getting medical help for self: distance to health facility	0.021
Heard of tuberculosis	-0.023
Husband’s education level	0.040
Respondent’s occupation	0.037
Husband’s age	-0.017
Beating justified if wife neglects the children	-0.012
Beating justified if wife argues with husband	-0.049
Beating justified if wife refuses to have sex with husband	0.042
Sex of child	0.015
Number of pregnancy losses	0.035
Blood relationship with husband	-0.035
Had a say in choosing the husband	0.026
Ever heard of hepatitis B or C	-0.028
Receive any cash/kind benefit from Benazir Income Support Program	-0.024