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 3 Distribution of client responses to facility exit interviews among clients who used a matatu to get to the clinic stratified by city

	Nairobi	Kisumu
Total women participate in client exit interviews	417	240
Place of exit interview, %
Public health clinic or hospital	84.4	33.3
Private health clinic or hospital	15.6	66.7
Reported reasons for facility visit, %
Family planning	45.6	31.3
Maternal and child health services	44.1	39.9
Curative services	10.3	28.8
Percent report visiting facility closest to home	37.2	17.5
Percent report choosing facility because near home	29.3	12.1
Primary reasons for not visiting facility closest to home (among those not visiting closest), N^a	261	197
Cost	26.1	13.2
Lack of services sought	13.0	27.4
Wealth index^b
Poorest	9.2	19.4
Poor	15.2	13.9
Middle	20.8	14.4
Rich	27.8	19.8
Richest	27.1	32.5

^aFull sample reporting not visiting facility closest to home (Nairobi, N = 417; Kisumu, N = 240); 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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