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Table 1 Frequency of births according to type of provider who assisted in each birth. Brazil, 2011–2012

From: Labor and birth care by nurse with midwifery skills in Brazil

  

Provider who assisted in each birth (N = 11,499)

p-value*

Physicians (%)

Nurses/nurse-midwives (%)

Geographical region

North

75.9

24.1

0.001

Northeast

90.1

9.9

Southeast

76.5

23.5

South

92.5

7.5

Central

99.2

0.8

Location

Non-capital

83.4

16.6

0.877

Capital

84.3

15.7

Source of payment

Public

83.5

16.5

0.054

Private

92.2

7.8

  1. *p-value of chi-square tests of comparison between physicians and nurses/midwives