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Table 3 Baseline regression models predicting nutritional status, infant mortality and child mortality

From: Social inequality and children’s health in Africa: a cross sectional study

 

Nutritional status

Neonatal mortality (odds ratios)

Child mortality rate

Maternal education

4.88*

.956*

.914*

Urban residence

7.49*

.957*

.949*

Wealth

21.03*

.998

.942*

Control variables:

   

Child age

-2.07*

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Husband present

-1.68

1.080*

1.078*

Husband-secondary education

8.69*

.957

.951*

Birth order

-3.45*

1.063*

1.081*

Twin

-32.13*

2.745*

1.993*

Female

14.78*

.717*

.859*

Maternal age

1.84*

.984*

.981*

Household size

.35*

.920*

.926*

Mother married

2.60*

.945

.879*

Mother employed

.10

1.086*

1.043*

Constant

-150.35

.099

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  1. *p < .05