NMICS 2010 Report - Central Bureau of Statistics

NMICS 2010, Mid- and Far Western Regionswas in the Far Western Mountains (nine percent). Urban women (53 percent) were more likely to beassisted by skilled personnel than rural women (26 percent). Women who gave birth in either agovernment health facility (87 percent) or a private health facility (96 percent) were much morelikely to be assisted by skilled personnel than women who gave birth at home (four percent).Women’s education level and wealth quintile both influenced the likelihood of being assisted byskilled personnel. Only 18 percent of women with no education received skilled assistance comparedto 29 percent of women with primary education and 51 percent of women with at least secondaryeducation. Only eight percent of women from the poorest quintile received skilled assistancecompared to 66 percent of women in the richest quintile.Some three percent of women in the MFWR who had given birth in the two years preceding thesurvey had been delivered by Caesarean-section. Women living in the Far Western Terai (fivepercent), living in urban areas (nine percent), delivering in a government health facility (ninepercent), with at least secondary education (six percent), or coming from the richest quintile (sevenpercent) were most likely to receive a Caesarean-section.114