Determinants of Use of Maternal Health Services in Nigeria—Looking Beyond Individual and Household Factors

Data from the 2005 National HIV/AIDS and Reproductive Health Survey-an interviewer-administered nationally representative survey-were analyzed to identify individual, household and community factors that were significantly associated with utilization of maternal care services among 2148 women who had a baby during the five years preceding the survey. In view of the nested nature of the data, we used multilevel analytic methods and assessed state-level random effects.