Table 1 Characteristics of included studies
Characteristics | Description |
|---|---|
Participants’ characteristics | |
Mean or median age in year, range (n = 95) | 23–34.1 |
Age range in years (n = 142) | 10–55.0 |
% of vaccinated against HBV, range (n = 21) | 0.0–8.9 |
% with secondary level of education or higher, range (n = 47) | 0.5–100 |
Marital status, % | |
- Single (n = 15) | 0.0–37.6 |
- Married (n = 51) | 2.7–100 |
- Divorced (n = 31) | 0.0–12.9 |
- Widow (n = 27) | 0.0–16.7 |
% in polygamous marriage (n = 16) | 2.8–56.0 |
% of ever received blood transfusion, range (n = 58) | 0.0–45.0 |
% living in rural, range (n = 21) | 0.0–100.0 |
% with history of multiple sexual partners, range (n = 84) | 0.0–54.0 |
% with history of any surgery procedure, range (n = 39) | 0.5–65.4 |
% with any dental procedure, range (n = 16) | 3.1–80.8 |
% with the first pregnancy, range (n = 51) | 2.6–73.0 |
% with scarification, range (n = 21) | 9.0–89.2 |
% with tattoos, range (n = 28) | 0.0–64.5 |
% with excision, range (n = 14) | 0.0–96.7 |
% with history of abortion, range (n = 23) | 0.0–63.0 |
% with history of traditional birth attendant, range (n = 4) | 8.0–50.0 |
Studies’ characteristics | |
Period of inclusion, range | 1995–2017 |
Region, n (%) | |
- Western | 79 (54.5) |
- Eastern | 25 (17.3) |
- Northern | 20 (13.8) |
- Middle | 14 (9.6) |
- Southern | 7 (4.8) |
Number of sites, n (%) | |
- Single | 94 (64.8) |
- Multisite | 51 (35.2) |
Timing, n (%) | |
- Prospective | 128 (88.3) |
- Retrospective | 17 (11.7) |
Setting, (%) | |
- Antenatal care | 108 (74.6) |
- Other hospital-based | 26 (17.9) |
- Antenatal care and other hospital-based | 11 (7.6) |
- Antenatal care and community-based | 1 (0.7) |
- Community-based | 1 (0.7) |
Sampling method, n (%) | |
- Consecutive | 114 (78.6) |
- Random | 20 (13.8) |
- Systematic | 11 (7.6) |
Human development indicators, median (1st–3rd quartiles) | |
Gender development index (n = 143) | 0.853 (0.847–0.884) |
Human development index (n = 143) | |
- Females | 0.482 (0.474–0.531) |
- Males | 0.569 (0.535–0.577) |
Life expectancy at birth, years | |
- Females | 59.5 (53.4–65.5) |
- Males | 55.5 (52.7–62.7) |
Gross national income per capita, USD (n = 144) | |
- Females | 4132 (1624–4132) |
- Males | 6706 (2576–6706) |
Expected years of schooling, years | |
- Females | 9.2 (9.2–10.9) |
- Males | 10.8 (10.5–11.7) |
Mean years of schooling (n = 14) | |
- Females | 4.9 (4.0–5.7) |
- Males | 7.1 (6.2–7.4) |
Population with at least some secondary education (% ages 25 and older) (n = 144) | |
- Females | 41.4 (16.4–41.4) |
- Males | 61.3 (30.5–76.2) |
Share of seats in parliament (% held by women) | 9.4 (5.8–27.1) |
Unemployment rate, female to male ratio | 1.2 (1.2–1.5) |