Is a woman’s first pregnancy outcome related to her years of schooling? An assessment of women’s adolescent pregnancy outcomes and subsequent educational attainment in Ghana

Table 1 Demographic, socio-economic and socio-cultural characteristics of all women

	All ages		20–29 years		30–39 years		40–49 years
All Women	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Adolescent First Pregnancy Outcomes
Live birth	3255	39.8	1124	33.2	1220	42.5	910	47.2
Spontaneous abortion	241	2.9	98	2.9	77	2.7	66	3.4
Induced abortion	532	6.5	232	6.9	189	6.6	111	5.8
No pregnancy	4159	50.8	1932	57.0	1387	48.3	840	43.6
Ethnicity
Akan	3969	48.5	1627	48.0	1404	48.9	938	48.7
Ga/Dangme	615	7.5	269	7.9	195	6.8	151	7.9
Ewe	1107	13.5	447	13.2	374	13.0	287	14.9
Mole-Dagbani	828	10.1	317	9.4	320	11.2	190	9.9
Other	1667	20.4	727	21.5	580	20.2	360	18.7
Religion
Catholic	1149	14.0	502	14.8	346	12.0	301	15.6
Protestant	1437	17.6	582	17.2	491	17.1	364	18.9
Pentecostal/Charismatic	2326	28.4	1016	30.0	829	28.8	481	25.0
Muslim	1349	16.5	577	17.0	485	16.9	287	14.9
Other	1926	23.5	710	21.0	722	25.2	493	25.6
Place of residence
Rural	4680	57.2	1815	53.6	1682	58.5	1183	61.4
Urban	3506	42.8	1571	46.4	1191	41.5	744	38.6
Wealth quintile
Poorest	1705	20.8	589	17.4	649	22.6	467	24.3
Poor	1750	21.4	709	20.9	608	21.2	433	22.5
Middle	1726	21.1	706	20.8	603	21.0	417	21.7
Rich	1550	18.9	721	21.3	513	17.8	316	16.4
Richest	1455	17.8	662	19.6	500	17.4	293	15.2
Frequency of abortions ever experienced
0	6766	82.6	2893	85.4	2335	81.3	1537	79.8
1	928	11.3	354	10.5	329	11.5	224	12.7
2	373	4.6	117	3.5	156	5.4	100	5.2
3+	120	1.5	22	0.7	52	1.8	45	2.4
Age Group
20–29	3387	41.4
30–39	2873	35.1
40–49	1927	23.5
Total	8186	100.0	3387	100.0	2873	100.0	1927	100.0

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