Postnatal care use by background characteristics among women age 15–49 who had given birth in the 5 years preceding the survey, EDHS 2016
| Background characteristics | Percentage of PNC use | Women PNC use (n) | ||
| Weighted | Unweighted | |||
| Age (years) | 15–19 | 4.4 | 338 | 358 |
| 20–34 | 6.6 | 5291 | 5041 | |
| 35–49 | 5.8 | 1960 | 1794 | |
| Religion | Orthodox Christian | 9.4 | 2882 | 2369 |
| Muslim | 4.0 | 2824 | 3324 | |
| Protestant | 5.5 | 1652 | 1338 | |
| Others* | 0.9 | 232 | 162 | |
| Residence | Urban | 12.1 | 969 | 1512 |
| Rural | 5.5 | 6621 | 5681 | |
| Region | Tigray | 15.6 | 538 | 772 |
| Afar | 4.2 | 71 | 647 | |
| Amhara | 8.0 | 1633 | 764 | |
| Oromia | 3.6 | 3130 | 1031 | |
| Somali | 3.0 | 269 | 806 | |
| Benishangul | 7.4 | 81 | 576 | |
| SNNPR | 6.3 | 1601 | 893 | |
| Gambella | 4.8 | 21 | 534 | |
| Harari | 11.1 | 18 | 411 | |
| Addis Ababa | 13.6 | 198 | 375 | |
| Dire Dawa | 9.1 | 33 | 384 | |
| Maternal education | No education | 4.8 | 4791 | 4359 |
| Primary | 7.7 | 2150 | 1942 | |
| Secondary | 11.9 | 420 | 577 | |
| Higher | 13.5 | 229 | 315 | |
| Husband/partner’s education level | No education | 4.9 | 3345 | 3136 |
| Primary | 6.6 | 2731 | 2160 | |
| Secondary | 9.3 | 612 | 745 | |
| Higher | 10.9 | 376 | 569 | |
| Don’t know | 9.3 | 43 | 52 | |
| Wealth index | Poorest | 3.1 | 1652 | 2428 |
| Poorer | 3.9 | 1654 | 1179 | |
| Middle | 5.9 | 1588 | 1028 | |
| Richer | 8.3 | 1426 | 917 | |
| Richest | 11.8 | 1269 | 1641 | |
| ANC visit | No ANC visit | 2.4 | 2818 | 2481 |
| ANC one to three visits | 6.6 | 2342 | 2092 | |
| ANC at least four visits | 10.5 | 2429 | 2620 | |
| Place of delivery | Health facility | 9.1 | 2408 | 2699 |
| Other than health facility | 5.0 | 5181 | 4494 | |
| Sex of child | Male | 5.8 | 3941 | 3718 |
| Female | 6.8 | 3649 | 3475 | |
| Child wanted | Wanted then | 5.9 | 5573 | 5741 |
| Wanted later | 7.9 | 1321 | 991 | |
| Wanted no more | 6.0 | 695 | 461 | |
| Birth order | 1 | 7.1 | 1434 | 1470 |
| 2–3 | 7.2 | 2281 | 2217 | |
| 4–5 | 6.0 | 1752 | 1638 | |
| 6+ | 5.0 | 2122 | 1868 | |
↵*Catholic, traditional and other unclassified.
ANC, antenatal care; EDHS, Ethiopia Demographic and Health Survey; PNC, postnatal care; SNNPR, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People’s Region.