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Table 2 Socio-demographic characteristics of study population

From: Effect of performance based financing home visiting on the use of modern methods of contraception in the kumbo east health district, Cameroon

  

Intervention (home visit)

 

Variable

 

No (N = 221)

Yes (N = 262)

P-value

Age (years)

 

Age (±SD)

30.40 ± 8.57

30.49 ± 7.84

0.90

Education (N, %)

 

None

14 (6.33 %)

7 (2.67 %)

0.06

 

Primary level

94 (42.53 %)

98 (37.40 %)

 

Secondary level

91 (41.18 %)

117 (44.66 %)

 

Tertiary level

22 (9.95 %)

40 (15.27 %)

Religion (N, %)

 

Catholic

116 (52.49 %)

131 (50.00 %)

0.03

 

Baptist

35 (15.84 %)

22 (8.40 %)

 

Presbyterian

32 (14.48 %)

53 (20.23 %)

 

Pentecostal

0 %

3 (1.15 %)

 

Muslim

38 (17.19 %)

53 (20.23 %)

Marital status (N,%)

 

Single

39 (17.65 %)

48 (18.32 %)

0.25

 

Married

164 (74.21 %)

195 (74.43 %)

 

separated/divorced

15 (6.79 %)

10 (3.82 %)

 

Widowed

3 (1.36 %)

9 (3.44 %)

Occupation (N, %)

 

Unemployed

80 (36.20 %)

98 (37.40 %)

0.78

 

Employed

141 (63.8 %)

164 (62.60 %)

Number of children (N, %)

 

0–2

95 (42.99 %)

126 (57.01 %)

0.54

 

3 > 5

120 (45.80 %)

142 (54.20 %)