| Items | Regular ANC (4 visits or more) | Difference | ||
| 2000 | 2008 | |||
| Place of residence* | Urban | 54.8 | 80.9 | Sig. |
| Rural | 28.3 | 59 | Sig. | |
| Region* | Urban governorates | 56.9 | 86 | Sig. |
| Urban Lower Egypt | 56 | 79 | Sig. | |
| Rural Lower Egypt | 34.9 | 65.6 | Sig. | |
| Urban Upper Egypt | 51.7 | 75.9 | Sig. | |
| Rural Upper Egypt | 21.1 | 50.5 | Sig. | |
| Frontier governorates | 30.3 | 66.1 | Sig. | |
| Current age* | 15 - 19 | 37.9 | 71.3 | Sig. |
| 20 - 24 | 40.3 | 70.3 | Sig. | |
| 25 - 29 | 41.7 | 69.1 | Sig. | |
| 30 - 34 | 40.5 | 65 | Sig. | |
| 35 - 39 | 35.2 | 63.9 | Sig. | |
| 40 - 44 | 29.9 | 56.8 | Sig. | |
| 45 - 49 | 19.5 | 59.2 | Sig. | |
| Educational attainment* | No education | 19.4 | 46.4 | Sig. |
| Incomplete primary | 29.7 | 58.7 | Sig. | |
| Complete primary | 44.1 | 62.9 | Sig. | |
| Incomplete secondary | 43.5 | 67.2 | Sig. | |
| Complete secondary | 57.7 | 75.2 | Sig. | |
| Higher | 73.6 | 90.1 | Sig. | |
| Work status* | Not working for cash | 36.4 | 65.8 | Sig. |
| Working for cash | 56.5 | 78.6 | Sig. | |
| Reading newspaper* | No | 26.6 | 62.8 | Sig. |
| Yes | 58.6 | 81.7 | Sig. | |
| Watching TV* | No | 16.5 | 43.5 | Sig. |
| Yes | 40.4 | 68 | Sig. | |
| Listening to radio* | No | 26.2 | 58.9 | Sig. |
| Yes | 41.8 | 73 | Sig. | |
| Terminated pregnancy** | No | 38.5 | 66.5 | Sig. |
| Yes | 40.9 | 70.9 | Sig. | |
| Wealth index* | Poorest | 15.4 | 42.4 | Sig. |
| Poorer | 22.4 | 56.6 | Sig. | |
| Middle | 36.6 | 65.9 | Sig. | |
| Richer | 49 | 81 | Sig. | |
| Richest | 70.6 | 90.1 | Sig. | |
| Partner’s educational attainment* | No education | 19.3 | 46.7 | Sig. |
| Incomplete primary | 30.5 | 59.5 | Sig. | |
| Complete primary | 30.6 | 67.3 | Sig. | |
| Incomplete secondary | 38.5 | 64.5 | Sig. | |
| Complete secondary | 49.3 | 71.6 | Sig. | |
| Higher | 65.8 | 85 | Sig. | |
| Total | 39 | 67 | Sig. | |