Table 4

Risk factors of maternal mortality at the household and provincial level, South Africa, 2001 (from linear logistic regression)

Household characteristics

Beta

Standard error

Net effect

Relative risk

P-value

Signif.


Provincial level

HIV prevalence

0.0173

0.0082

689

1.15

0.036

*

Violence death rate

0.0393

0.0088

795

1.33

0.000

*

Home delivery

-0.0072

0.0085

566

0.95

0.399

Household level

Level of education

-0.0588

0.0131

497

0.83

0.000

*

Wealth distance

-0.0638

0.0228

517

0.86

0.005

*

Urban

0.2103

0.0993

738

1.23

0.034

*

Black/African (ref)

599

1.00

0.000

*

Coloured

-0.3925

0.2379

405

0.68

0.099

Indian

-0.9613

0.5872

230

0.38

0.102

White

-1.6767

0.5858

113

0.19

0.004

*

Constant

-5.9427

0.3092

599


Garenne et al. Population Health Metrics 2008 6:4   doi:10.1186/1478-7954-6-4

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