Characteristics of Nigerian female respondents aged 15–49 and their closest female confidantes aged 15–49 who had a prior abortion*
Respondent | Unadjusted confidante | Adjusted confidante† | ||||
N | % | N | % | N | % | |
Mean age | 11 106 | 29.1 | 5772 | 28.4 | 11 106 | 29.1 |
Age | ||||||
15–19 | 2257 | 18.9 | 1163 | 19.0 | 2221 | 18.5 |
20–24 | 1870 | 16.2 | 1132 | 19.6 | 1942 | 16.9 |
25–29 | 2040 | 18.8 | 1073 | 18.0 | 2008 | 18.0 |
30–34 | 1629 | 15.0 | 878 | 15.3 | 1658 | 15.0 |
35–39 | 1473 | 13.9 | 694 | 13.1 | 1447 | 14.3 |
40–44 | 1102 | 10.5 | 509 | 9.3 | 1114 | 10.5 |
45–49 | 735 | 6.8 | 323 | 5.7 | 716 | 6.8 |
Education | ||||||
Never | 2355 | 17.5 | 1049 | 15.9 | 2406 | 17.9 |
Primary | 1906 | 15.2 | 789 | 11.3 | 1742 | 14.4 |
Secondary | 4934 | 46.9 | 2687 | 46.4 | 4883 | 46.3 |
Higher | 1911 | 20.3 | 1345 | 26.3 | 2075 | 21.4 |
Marital status | ||||||
Currently married/cohabiting | 7378 | 63.7 | – | – | – | – |
Divorced or separated/widowed | 515 | 4.8 | – | – | – | – |
Never married | 3211 | 31.5 | – | – | – | – |
Religion of household | ||||||
Catholic | 1593 | 14.7 | – | – | – | – |
Other Christian | 3823 | 44.0 | – | – | – | – |
Muslim | 5369 | 39.2 | – | – | – | – |
Other | 321 | 2.1 | – | – | – | – |
Ethnicity | ||||||
Hausa | 3524 | 21.0 | – | – | – | – |
Igbo | 2071 | 22.5 | – | – | – | – |
Yoruba | 1015 | 13.1 | ||||
Other | 4495 | 43.4 | – | – | – | – |
Parity | ||||||
0 | 3745 | 35.1 | – | – | – | – |
1–2 | 2666 | 25.1 | – | – | – | – |
3–4 | 2385 | 21.7 | – | – | – | – |
5+ | 2290 | 18.1 | – | – | – | – |
Residence | ||||||
Rural | 5701 | 42.9 | – | – | – | – |
Urban | 5405 | 57.1 | – | – | – | – |
State | ||||||
Anambra | 1419 | 12.8 | – | – | – | – |
Kaduna | 2766 | 9.5 | – | – | – | – |
Kano | 1751 | 13.1 | – | – | – | – |
Lagos | 1590 | 21.4 | – | – | – | – |
Nasarawa | 1536 | 13.4 | – | – | – | – |
Rivers | 1223 | 17.0 | – | – | – | – |
Taraba | 821 | 12.7 | – | – | – | – |
Mean number of confidantes | 10 671 | 0.8 | – | – | – | – |
Total | 11 106 | 100.0 | 5883 | 100.0 | 11 106 | 100.0 |
*Ns across catgories of a characteristic that do not sum to total N is a result of missingness.
†Including respondent characteristics for confidantes and post-stratification weights.