Socio-economic and geographic equity in maternal health services utilization in Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study

Table 3 Equity analyses of coverage of maternal healthcare services by household wealth PMA Ethiopia, 2019–2020 (weighted sample)

Maternal Health Service Utilization	Sample		Wealth index
Maternal Health Service Utilization	Sample	Overall	Q1^a	Q5^b	Absolute difference Q5-Q1	Ratio Q5/Q1	Concentration index
One or more ANC	2714	70%	62%	76%	14%	1.22	0.07 P < 0.001
Four or more ANC	2714	40%	23%	66%	43%	3	0.24 P < 0.001
Quality-adjusted ANC-coverage ^c	2714	12%	8%	16%	8%	2	0.17 P < 0.001
Skilled birth attendance coverage	2605	54%	29%	94%	65%	3.2	0.26 P < 0.001
Quality-adjusted SBA coverage ^d	2605	7%	2%	11%	9%	1.2	0.30 P < 0.001

^aQ1: First Quintile (the poorest)
^bQ5: Fifth quintile (the least poor)
^cQuality-adjusted ANC coverage: The proportion of women who attended four or more ANC visit from a facility ready to provide antenatal care along with tetanus vaccination and Iron folate tablets according to standard care provision
^dQuality-adjusted skilled birth attendance: The proportion of women who gave birth at a facility ready to provide skilled birth attendance and received uterotonic injection immediately after delivery according to standard care provision

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