Quintile of responsiveness index (RI) | ||||||
Lowest RI quintile (n=549) | Highest RI quintile (n=404) | Total (N=1946) | ||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | |
Respondent characteristics | ||||||
Age (n=1946) | ||||||
15–24 | 163 | 29.7 | 103 | 25.4 | 550 | 28.3 |
25–34 | 215 | 39.2 | 153 | 37.7 | 738 | 37.9 |
35–49 | 171 | 31.1 | 149 | 36.9 | 658 | 33.8 |
Primary or lower schooling (n=1946) | 225 | 40.9 | 131 | 32.5 | 677 | 34.8 |
Income (n=1946) | ||||||
Bottom two wealth quintiles | 234 | 42.6 | 177 | 43.7 | 774 | 39.8 |
Neighbourhood (n=1946) | ||||||
Urban | 266 | 48.4 | 190 | 47.0 | 971 | 49.9 |
Rural | 283 | 51.6 | 214 | 53.0 | 975 | 50.1 |
Region of residence (n=1946) | ||||||
Ashanti | 58 | 10.6 | 116 | 28.7 | 400 | 20.6 |
Brong Ahafo | 42 | 7.6 | 29 | 7.1 | 110 | 5.7 |
Central | 17 | 3.2 | 101 | 25.1 | 178 | 9.1 |
Eastern | 112 | 20.3 | 20 | 4.9 | 229 | 11.8 |
Greater Accra | 94 | 17.1 | 48 | 11.8 | 291 | 14.9 |
Northern | 34 | 6.2 | 48 | 11.9 | 202 | 10.4 |
Upper East | 66 | 11.9 | 3 | 0.8 | 133 | 6.8 |
Upper West | 39 | 7.1 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 3.7 |
Volta | 33 | 6.0 | 25 | 6.2 | 123 | 6.3 |
Western | 55 | 10.0 | 14 | 3.5 | 207 | 10.7 |
Very easy to get care if needed tomorrow (n=1941) | 304 | 55.4 | 344 | 86.6 | 1364 | 71.0 |
Always see same provider (n=1943) | 117 | 21.3 | 100 | 24.7 | 438 | 22.6 |
Visit characteristics | ||||||
Facility type (n=1912) | ||||||
Community-based health planning and services | 58 | 10.6 | 61 | 15.4 | 210 | 11.0 |
Government hospital/polyclinic | 242 | 44.3 | 163 | 41.0 | 777 | 40.6 |
Government health centre | 161 | 29.6 | 60 | 15.1 | 464 | 24.2 |
Private hospital/clinic | 65 | 11.9 | 89 | 22.4 | 353 | 18.5 |
Other | 19 | 3.6 | 24 | 6.0 | 108 | 5.7 |
Reason for seeking care* (n=1946) | ||||||
Preventive | 137 | 24.9 | 129 | 31.8 | 533 | 27.4 |
Chronic | 21 | 3.9 | 5 | 1.3 | 66 | 3.4 |
Acute | 391 | 71.2 | 270 | 66.9 | 1347 | 69.2 |
Seeking care for self only (n=1946) | 290 | 52.9 | 211 | 52.3 | 1054 | 54.2 |
Seeking care for others only (n=1946) | 174 | 31.7 | 117 | 28.9 | 599 | 30.8 |
Seeking care for self and others (n=1946) | 85 | 15.4 | 76 | 18.8 | 293 | 15.1 |
Counts and percentages weighted to account for survey sampling design (unweighted n=2018).
*Acute: any fever, sick, snake bite, injury, worried about a new symptom, community health worker instructed to go, any eye issue, abdominal pain or respiratory problem. Chronic: nothing classified as acute, and blood pressure, HIV or diabetes. Preventive: nothing classified as acute or chronic, and check-up, family planning, maternal care, vaccination or other.