Predictors and Utilization of Health Institution Services for Childbirth among Mothers in a Southern Nigerian City

Table 3

Multiple logistic regression analysis to predict health facility delivery.

Predictors	Sig.	OR	95% confidence interval
			Lower bound	Upper bound
Age
15–20 years	0.148	0.362	0.092	1.434
21–25 years	0.186	0.392	0.098	1.570
26–30 years	0.059	0.260	0.064	1.052
31–35 years	0.287	0.462	0.111	1.918
36–40 years	0.511	0.606	0.136	2.705
41–45 years	0.767	0.792	0.169	3.714
Religion
Christian	0.666	1.957	0.093	41.071
Muslim	0.668	0.469	0.015	14.992
Marital status
Single	0.991	1.071	0.000	0.000
Married	0.991	1.976	0.000	0.000
Divorced/separated	0.992	3.709	0.000	0.000
Educational status
Postsecondary	0.056	0.227	0.049	1.041
Secondary school	0.245	0.380	0.074	1.940
Employment status
Employed	.000	7.972	4.047	1.570
Self-employed	.000	7.478	3.783	1.478
Unemployed	.	1.116	1.116	1.116
Occupation of partner
Farmer	0.709	0.901	0.522	1.557
Daily laborer	0.560	1.275	0.563	2.886
Business man	0.104	1.854	0.880	3.904
Partner’s educational status
Postsecondary	0.130	6.463	0.576	72.475
Secondary school	0.217	4.979	0.390	63.516
Health facility available	0.722	0.629	0.049	8.089
ANC registration
First trimester	0.089	4.966	0.783	31.483
Second trimester	0.764	1.313	0.223	7.734
Third trimester	0.670	1.478	0.245	8.914
Received advice where to deliver	0.056	4.902	0.961	24.998