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Table 2 Concentration indices by geopolitical zone and urban-rural location, Nigeria, 2013

From: Socioeconomic inequalities in maternal health service utilisation: a case of antenatal care in Nigeria using a decomposition approach

Variables

No ANC visit

ANC4+ visits

ANC visit intensity

Geopolitical zone

 North-Central

− 0.462*** (0.041)

0.456*** (0.083)

0.246*** (0.032)

 North-East

− 0.518*** (0.054)

0.382*** (0.054)

0.235*** (0.030)

 North-West

− 0.468*** (0.045)

0.396*** (0.030)

0.303*** (0.022)

 South-East

−0.087*** (0.020)

0.192*** (0.030)

0.090*** (0.016)

 South-South

−0.224*** (0.038)

0.339*** (0.042)

0.171*** (0.020)

 South-West

−0.163*** (0.016)

0.226*** (0.075)

0.076*** (0.024)

Location

 Urban

−0.224*** (0.015)

0.324*** (0.036)

0.156*** (0.015)

 Rural

−0.514*** (0.023)

0.451*** (0.027)

0.360*** (0.017)

 Population

−0.573*** (0.016)

0.582*** (0.024)

0.357*** (0.012)

  1. Note: Estimation sample was 18,559; estimates are weighted by the women’s sampling weight; EI computed for all dummy outcomes; standard errors in parenthesis; *, **, and *** indicate statistical significance at the 10, 5, and 1% respectively