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Table 10 Per cent distribution of whether postnatal care was received among women with a live or stillbirth in the five years preceding the survey, according to religion and ethnicity*

From: Inequities in accessibility to and utilisation of maternal health services in Ghana after user-fee exemption: a descriptive study

Background characteristic

Obtained PNC

No PNC

Total

Number of births

Religion

    

 Catholic

77.7

22.3

100

694

 Protestant

78.8

21.2

100

80

 Methodist

85.3

14.7

100

346

 Presbyterian

72.9

27.1

100

317

 Pentecostal/charismatic

77.5

22.5

100

1402

 Other Christian

75.2

24.8

100

836

 Moslem

77.5

22.5

100

893

 Traditional/spiritualist

65.7

34.3

100

207

 No religion

63.1

36.9

100

293

 Other

1

0

100

1

Ethnicity

    

 Akan

81.8

18.2

100

2244

 Ga/Dangme

66.6

33.4

100

404

 Ewe

66.5

33.5

100

644

 Guan

81.4

18.6

100

118

 Mole-Dagbani

78.3

21.7

100

548

 Grussi

67.1

32.9

100

246

 Gruma

66.8

33.2

100

343

 Hausa

87.1

12.9

100

62

 Other

76.6

23.4

100

461

Total

76.1

23.9

100

5070

  1. *Total includes 142 women with missing information on PNC.