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Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of the study participants

From: Factors influencing the choice of facility-based delivery in the ethnic minority villages of Lao PDR: a qualitative case study

  Total (n = 105) Women who gave birth (n = 39) Husbands (n = 30) Mothers/mothers-in-law (n = 28) Village heads/VHVs (n = 8)
Age: median (range) 33 (17–72) 27 (17–43) 31.5 (18–47) 49 (40–72) 40.5 (29–57)
Ethnic group: n (%)
 Tree 78 (74.3) 27 (69.2) 24 (80.0) 22 (78.6) 5 (62.5)
 Makong 22 (21.0) 10 (25.6) 5 (16.7) 6 (21.4) 1 (12.5)
 Phoutha 3 (2.9) 1 (2.6) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 2 (25.2)
 Other 2 (1.9) 1 (2.6) 1 (3.3) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)
Education: n (%)
 0 years 75 (71.4) 33 (84.6) 14 (46.7) 28 (100.0) 0 (0.0)
 1–5 years 24 (22.9) 5 (12.8) 13 (43.3) 0 (0.0) 6 (75.0)
 6–11 years 5 (4.8) 0 (0.0) 3 (10.0) 0 (0.0) 2 (25.0)
 More than 12 years 1 (1.0) 1 (2.6) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)
Religion: n (%)
 Animism 97 (92.4) 37 (94.9) 27 (90.0) 26 (92.9) 7 (87.5)
 Buddhism 3 (2.9) 2 (5.1) 1 (3.3) 2 (7.1) 0 (0.0)
 No answer 5 (4.8) 0 (0.0) 2 (6.7) 0 (0.0) 1 (12.5)