The individual- and community-level women's empowerment and utilization of maternity care services in Afghanistan: a multilevel cross-validation study.

Except for property owning, the high score in almost all other domains was associated with higher utilization of maternity care, which indicates an acceptable level of convergence validity for the developed index (i.e. the SWEI-A) in measuring women's empowerment among married Afghan women aged 15-49 y.