Abortion experience and self-efficacy: exploring socioeconomic profiles of GHANAIAN women

Table 1 Summary Statistics (weights included), Ghana Maternal Health Survey, 2017

	Mean	SD	Minimum	Maximum
Dependent Variables
Ever had an abortion	0.196	0.4	0	1
Had an abortion in previous 5 years	0.104	0.3	0	1
Safe abortion (Yes = 1)	0.378	0.49	0	1
Abortion self-efficacy (Yes = 1)	0.255	0.44	0	1
Explanatory Variables
Woman age	29.527	9.7	15	49
Male partner present in household	0.75	0.43	0	1
Household size	5.238	2.85	1	34
Woman Education levels
None/Primary education	0.192	0.39	0	1
Junior secondary school	0.492	0.5	0	1
Senior secondary school	0.222	0.42	0	1
Post-secondary education	0.093	0.29	0	1
No. of children ever born	2.239	2.3	0	14
Household is polygynous (Yes = 1)	0.142	0.35	0	1
Religion
Catholic	0.096	0.29	0	1
Muslim	0.154	0.36	0	1
Other Christian	0.708	0.45	0	1
Traditionalist/ No religion	0.042	0.2	0	1
Wealth Quintiles
Poorest	0.162	0.37	0	1
Poorer	0.188	0.39	0	1
Middle	0.204	0.4	0	1
Richer	0.217	0.41	0	1
Richest	0.228	0.42	0	>1
Woman owns bank account (Yes = 1)	0.295	0.46	0	1
Mass media
Household owns a radio (Yes = 1)	0.766	0.42	0	1
Household owns a TV (Yes = 1)	0.784	0.41	0	1
Urban residence	0.549	0.5	0	1
Access to health facilities not a problem (Yes = 1)	0.763	0.42	0	1
Perception of abortion (Abortion is legal = 1)	0.114	0.32	0	1
Covered by NHIS (Yes = 1)	0.583	0.49	0	1
Ethnic Groups
Akan	0.497	0.5	0	1
Ga	0.083	0.28	0	1
Ewe	0.142	0.35	0	1
Mole Dagbani	0.155	0.36	0	1
Other northern ethnic group	0.124	0.33	0	1
Region
Western	0.129	0.34	0	1
Central	0.089	0.28	0	1
Greater Accra	0.186	0.39	0	1
Volta	0.08	0.27	0	1
Eastern	0.1	0.3	0	1
Ashanti	0.191	0.39	0	1
Brong Ahafo	0.094	0.29	0	1
Northern	0.071	0.26	0	1
Upper East	0.034	0.18	0	1
Upper West	0.025	0.16	0	1
Observations	25062

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