Free List and Consensus Analysis
| Percent of Respondents | Average Position on the Freelists | Smith’s Saliency Score | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Item Ranked by Salience* | Low Literacy (n = 9) | Higher Literacy (n = 31) | All (n = 40) | Low Literacy (n = 9) | Higher Literacy (n = 31) | All (n = 40) | Low Literacy (n = 9) | Higher Literacy (n = 31) | All (n = 40) |
| *Free-list terms generated by participants responding to the request to list 10 “things that you think about when going to the doctor when you are pregnant.” | |||||||||
| Everything ok | 56 | 26 | 33 | 2.2 | 3.50 | 3.00 | .399 | .180 | .229 |
| Long wait | 22 | 32 | 30 | 1.0 | 4.30 | 3.75 | .222 | .181 | .190 |
| Questions | 33 | 29 | 30 | 3.0 | 4.67 | 4.25 | .241 | .153 | .179 |
| Needles | 22 | 26 | 25 | 4.5 | 2.88 | 3.20 | .095 | .192 | .167 |
| Weight | — | 29 | 23 | — | 3.89 | 3.89 | — | .190 | .147 |
| Heart beat | 11 | 19 | 18 | 2.0 | 3.00 | 2.86 | .056 | .150 | .138 |
| Ultrasound | 11 | 19 | 18 | 5.0 | 3.33 | 3.57 | .056 | .141 | .122 |
| Baby’s health | 22 | 23 | 23 | 5.0 | 4.29 | 4.11 | .079 | .121 | .119 |
| Tests | 22 | 19 | 20 | 7.0 | 3.5 | 4.38 | .111 | .128 | .109 |