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Table 1 Categorization of independent variables as obtained from the 2020 Rwanda Demographic Health Survey dataset

From: Prevalence of adequate postnatal care and associated factors in Rwanda: evidence from the Rwanda demographic health survey 2020

Variable

Categorization

Remarks/ description

Exposure to newspapers or magazines

No and Yes

Yes, included those exposed to less than once and at least once a week and No included all those that reported no exposure to newspapers/magazines.

Exposure to radio

No and Yes

Yes, included those exposed to less than once and at least once a week and No included all those that reported no exposure to radio.

Exposure to television (TV)

No and Yes

Yes, included those exposed to less than once and at least once a week and No included all those that reported no exposure to TV.

Access to internet

Yes and no

This was self-reported with yes for those who reported using internet while no for those who were not using internet

Age

15 to 24 years, 25 to 34 years and 35 to 49 years

This was a continuous variable that was later categorized.

Residence

Urban and Rural

 

Region

North, East, South, West and Kigali

 

Household size

Less than 6 and above 6

Based on the dataset average of 5.2

Parity

1, 2–4 and 5 and above

This was a continuous variable that was later categorized.

level of education

No education, primary, secondary, and tertiary

 

Working status

Yes and no

 

Wealth index

Richest, richer, middle, poorer, and poorest quintiles

Wealth index is a measure of relative household economic status and was calculated by DHS from information on household asset ownership using Principal Component Analysis [20], which was further categorized into poorest, poorer, middle, richer and richest quintiles.

Having health insurance

Yes and no

 

Having been visited by a field health worker within the last 12 months

Yes and no

 

Problems seeking permission to go to a health facility

No big problems and big problems

RDHS had three original self-reported categories (no problem, no big problem and big problem) however, after data collection, no woman reported no problem

Problems with distance to the nearest health facility

No big problems and big problems

RDHS had three original self-reported categories (no problem, no big problem and big problem) however, after data collection, no woman reported no problem.

Marital status

Married and not married

Married included both formal and informal unions and not-married included all women that were not in formal or informal unions.

Place of ANC

Private and public health facilities

Private facilities included polyclinics, clinics, and dispensaries while public included referral and district hospitals, health centers, posts, and outreaches. These were combined due to the limited numbers in each sub-category.

ANC quality

Adequate and inadequate

Adequate care was defined as having received all the available six components of ANC that included; having blood pressure measurement, urine, blood samples being taken, being given iron tablets/syrups, intestinal parasite drugs and having had at least two tetanus injections while inadequate was defined as having less than 6 components [27].

ANC frequency

4 and above contacts and less than 4 contacts

4 and above included all women who had utilized at least 4 ANC contacts and less 4 included those who has less than 4 ANC contacts.

Place of childbirth

Home and health facility

Home birth included all women who had their childbirth at home/outside health facility while health facility birth included all births that occurred in a health facility [28].