Characteristics of a sample of women from Jimma Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia,* and comparison with DHS rural subsample
| Characteristic | n=1006† | DHS 2005‡ |
| Age, mean (SD) | 26.5 (5.5) | 29.5 (8.9) |
| Years of education, mean (SD) | 0.67 (2.0) | 0.56 (2.9) |
| No of total living children, mean (SD) | 3.4 (1.8) | 3.79 (2.9) |
| No of children born in a health facility, mean (SD) | 0.1 (0.4) | n/a |
| Household owns farming land | 782 (77.7) | 8716 (92.0)§ |
| Household has electricity | 135 (13.4) | 326 (1.9)§ |
| Distance in kilometres to nearest: | ||
| Health post, mean (SD) | 3.7 (4.9) | n/a |
| Health centre, mean (SD) | 8.8 (5.5) | n/a |
| Hospital, mean (SD) | 49.8 (6.7) | n/a |
| Per cent living within 5 km of health facility¶ | 844 (83.9) | n/a |
| Place of last delivery‡‡ | ||
| Home§§ | 942 (93.8) | 5248 (97.8) |
| Health post | 10 (1.0) | 21 (0.32) |
| Health centre | 44 (4.4) | 58 (0.89) |
| Hospital | 7 (0.7) | 88 (1.0) |
↵* Data is n (%) unless otherwise specified.
↵† Totals may not add up to 1006 due to missing data.
↵‡ Restricted to rural residents; data are from women's birth files unless otherwise specified.
↵§ From household file.
↵¶ Seven hundred fifty-four (75%) of the women live within 5 km of a health post, 330 (32.8%) live within 5 km of a health centre and none of the women live within 5 km of a hospital.
↵‡‡ One woman delivered in an unspecified location.
↵§§ Home includes respondent's or someone else's home.
n/a, distances to health care facilities were not collected in the DHS survey.