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Abha Gupta, Pushpendra Kumar and Olalemi Adewumi Dorcas

Table 1. Percentage distribution of women (aged 15–49) who had received full antenatal care by background characteristics, Jharkhand, India,
2007-2008
Background Characteristics % Number (n) Background Characteristics % Number (n)
Total 100.00 1,035 Girl 9.15 499
Social Group Mass media exposure
SCs 6.73 113 No exposure 5.72 537
STs 6.20 254 Any exposure 23.97 498
OBCs 10.19 474 Wealth quintiles
Others 18.96 189 Poorest 4.02 209
Religion Poor 7.08 234
Hindu 10.23 761 Middle 12.77 182
Muslim 6.72 93 Rich 17.78 164
Christians 8.49 58 Richest 40.47 244
Other 6.29 122 Districts
Place of residence Garhwa 2.88 15
Rural 7.16 744 Palamu 5.41 36
Urban 27.00 290 Chatra 6.32 39
Age Hazaribagh 8.82 38
15–24 9.90 428 Kodarma 9.20 52
25–34 9.28 539 Giridih 10.79 75
35–49 5.04 67 Deoghar 7.62 41
Education Godda 7.91 43
Primary 8.24 113 Sahibganj 4.16 21
Secondary 18.02 415 Pakur 2.88 17
Above secondary 41.21 197 Dumka 6.06 32
Marital status Dhanbad 16.85 57
Others 7.70 7 Bokaro 16.27 71
Currently married 9.03 1,027 Ranchi 11.58 38
Age at first birth Lohardaga 8.83 40
<20 6.81 416 Gumla 6.48 36
20+ 11.55 615 Western Singhbhum 14.00 75
Birth order Eastern Singhbhum 21.22 54
1 13.25 394 Simdega 9.24 50
2 11.06 297 Seraikella 19.05 76
3 7.76 168 Latehar 6.17 43
4+ 4.74 169 Jamtara 13.09 74
Sex of the child Jharkhand 9.02 1,035
Boy 8.91 535
Note: (1) SCs: Scheduled castes; STs, Scheduled tribes; OBCs, other backward classes.(2) Because of missing values, the sum of all categories of some variables does
not add to total.(3) All ‘n’ values are unweighted
Source: Computed from DLHS-3 data.

with an increase in their educational level. For instance, women having above secondary schooling
were 1.67 times more likely (odds ratio: 2.67; 95% CI: 1.93–3.69) to utilize full ANC services than
those who had primary education. Similarly, older women at the time of their first birth were 23%
more likely (odds ratio: 1.23; 95% CI: 1.00–1.52) to utilize full ANC services than the younger age
women. Furthermore, parity of the mothers also affected the full ANC utilization as the probability

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