Client characteristics.
This table shows client characteristics for everyone and by department in the study sample and in the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) of Cameroon in 2018; column 1 includes the full sample of clients in the study sample; columns 2 includes clients who received a consultation at the family planning (FP) department, i.e., who visited the FP unit through their own personal initiative; column 3 includes clients who visited another hospital department, primarily maternity and gynecology; and column 4 includes only individuals from the Yaoundé stratum of the DHS. MiM refers to Method in Mind clients, who are individuals that visited the hospital seeking a specific method, which they either wanted to adopt or renew; this category is not present in the DHS data. Adolescent refers to individuals between ages 15 and 19. In the DHS, data on the body mass index (BMI) is only collected for mothers of children born in the 3/5 years preceding the survey (months 0 to 59 before the survey) for a total of 467 respondents. Both DHS and the study sample are restricted to women ages 15 to 49, who are not pregnant, and do not want to become pregnant within the next 12 months.