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Table A1.12: Birth registrations and their correlates, children age 0-59 months, Vanuatu, 2007
Birth is registered? (%)
Birth is not registered because: (%)
Background
characteristics
Yes *
Don’t
know
Total
Costs too
much
Must travel
too far
Didn’t
know **
Doesn’t
know ***
Not
urgent
Other
Don’t
know Missing
Total not
registered
Sex Male 24.5 4.9 844 3.9 7.5 28.3 10.8 38.9 3.8 6.1 0.6 566
Female 26.9 4.9 790 4.8 7.8 28.3 8.4 41.3 3.1 5.5 0.8 512
Region Tafea 12.5 8.8 240 0.0 1.1 41.3 23.3 27.0 2.6 4.2 0.5 189
Shefa 29.1 5.0 179 1.7 4.2 33.9 17.8 34.7 1.7 5.1 0.8 118
Malampa 20.5 1.4 146 1.8 3.5 45.6 2.6 26.3 2.6 16.7 0.9 114
Penama 31.5 0.0 149 3.9 31.4 2.9 2.9 53.9 2.0 1.0 2.0 102
Sanma 24.0 5.0 121 7.0 12.8 30.2 9.3 31.4 8.1 1.2 0.0 86
Torba 20.7 3.9 203 30.1 11.8 17.0 2.0 22.9 7.2 7.8 1.3 153
Port Vila 36.5 9.1 342 1.6 0.0 2.7 1.6 91.4 2.2 0.5 0.0 186
Luganville 43.7 5.1 254 19.2 0.0 5.4 1.5 64.6 6.2 3.1 0.0 130
Residence Urban 38.5 8.0 596 6.2 0.0 3.4 1.6 84.4 3.2 1.2 0.0 316
Rural 22.6 4.2 1,038 4.0 9.0 32.6 11.1 32.4 3.5 6.6 0.8 762
Age 0-11 months 22.7 5.2 347 3.6 6.7 25.9 9.5 43.3 4.8 5.7 0.6 236
12-23 months 26.9 2.2 342 3.0 7.1 27.5 10.4 36.9 5.4 7.9 1.7 233
24-35 months 22.6 5.6 337 3.4 7.2 30.2 9.3 42.1 2.4 5.5 0.0 234
36-47 months 30.0 5.4 339 5.9 9.9 31.7 9.1 35.5 3.1 4.9 0.0 207
48-59 months 26.3 6.8 269 6.8 7.7 26.2 10.1 42.6 0.9 4.6 1.2 168
Mother’s education
None 19.0 2.4 139 5.1 7.2 47.9 11.2 14.7 6.4 6.4 1.1 110
Primary 22.9 4.5 960 4.1 7.8 28.9 10.3 39.3 3.2 5.5 0.9 673
Secondary+ 34.0 6.4 532 4.8 7.3 18.4 7.4 52.2 3.3 6.6 0.0 293
Non-standard (*) (*) 2 (*) (*) (*) (*) (*) (*) (*) (*) 2
curriculum
Missing/DK (*) (*) 1 - - - - - - - - 0
86