Antenatal Care Effective Coverage and Factors in West Gojjam, Ethiopia, 2023

A 2023 facility-based study assessed the effective coverage of antenatal care services among women attending public hospitals in West Gojjam Zone, northwest Ethiopia. The dataset, authored by Bekalu Endalew and released under CC-BY-4.0, reports an effective coverage rate of 25.9% and identifies associated factors such as maternal age, pregnancy intention, and obstetric history.

Use Cases

• Modeling predictors of effective antenatal care coverage based on maternal age and pregnancy intention mentioned in the results.
• Analyzing disparities in healthcare quality metrics like effective coverage within a specific geographic region.
• Benchmarking health system performance for maternal services using the reported 25.9% coverage figure.
• Studying the association between previous obstetric or gynecological complications and subsequent care quality.

Strengths

• Includes specific statistical results, such as a 25.9% effective coverage rate with a 95% confidence interval.
• Identifies statistically significant predictors (e.g., age 25-34, wanted pregnancy) with reported odds ratios.
• Data collection methodology is described, involving hospital health information systems and client charts.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Geographic scope is limited to public hospitals in one zone of Ethiopia.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Bekalu Endalew.

Collection Method

Facility-based retrospective cross-sectional study using hospital health information data systems and client charts.

Time Range

Data collection occurred from June 30 to July 30, 2023.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-21 17:32:55; freshness should be verified.

Geography

West Gojjam Zone public hospitals, northwest Ethiopia.