Access to public transportation and health facilities offering long-acting reversible contraceptives among residents of formal and informal settlements in two cities in Kenya

Table 2 Distribution of client responses to facility exit interviews stratified by city

	Nairobi	Kisumu
Total women participate in client exit interviews	1602	1158
Place of exit interview, %
Public health clinic or hospital	76.2	50.5
Private health clinic or hospital	23.8	49.5
Reported reasons for facility visit, %
Family planning	48.4	32.1
Maternal and child health services	43.7	30.5
Curative services	7.9	37.4
Percent report visiting facility closest to home	62.0	58.1
Percent report choosing facility because near home	56.2	52.5
Primary reasons for not visiting facility closest to home (among those not visiting closest), N^a	606	481
Cost	35.8	16.0
Lack of services sought	11.4	25.0
Percent who rode matatu to facility	26.0	20.7
Percent who walked to facility	71.0	52.4
Wealth index^b
Poorest	13.3	29.6
Poor	24.6	14.2
Middle	21.9	16.8
Rich	22.7	16.2
Richest	17.5	23.2

^aFull sample reporting not visiting facility closest to home (Nairobi, N = 699; Kisumu, N = 549); Number included for reasons not visiting closest facility smaller because it is restricted to the women who reported a reason for not visiting facility closest to home (drops those with missing information)
^bComposite score of household asset ownership including mobile phone, TV, radio, computer, VCR, refrigerator, iron, fan, and gas cooker, and household structure characteristics including concrete roof, indoor toilet, piped water in dwelling, number of rooms, and electricity

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