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МОНГОЛЫН ХҮН АМЫН СЭТГҮҮЛ Дугаар (367) 20, 2011
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DATA SOURCE AND METHODS
This study used a secondary data of
‘Reproductive Health Survey 2008 (RHS)’ by
National Statistical Office of Mongolia. In the
RHS, 9,402 women of 15-49 years old and
3,362 husbands were interviewed. Under this
study, 3,924 children who were born in the five
years prior to the survey were analyzed. There
were 51 cases of under-five child mortality
among the selected children for the study.
Bivariate analysis was employed to explore
relationships between socio-demographic,
child, household environmental and health care
service factors affecting and child mortality
using crosstabulation with Pearson’s chi-
square test. Binary logistic regression was used
to determine odds of independent variables
to affect child mortality. STATA 10.0 and
SPSS 11.5 statistical software packages were
employed to analyze the data of the study.
RESULTS OF THE STUDY
Bivariate analysis
From below Table 1, it can be seen that the
mother’s age had statistically significant
relationship with child mortality (p≤0.05).
Mothers whose age were less than 20 tended to
experience child mortality more than two times
higher than the mothers whose age were 20-29,
and more than 4 times than the mothers whose
age were 30 years old and more.
Child ever breastfed had the strongest
statistically significant relationship with child
survival. There was only 3 per cent of children
who never breastfed, but 18 per cent of the
total children who never breastfed experienced
child mortality (p≤0.001).
Birth order of the child had statistically
significant relationship with child mortality
(p≤0.05). Children born in the order one or four
and higher experienced death by 0.78 per cent
more than children born in the order two or three.
Table 1:
Crosstabulation between child mortality and selected characteristics
Characteristics
Child Mortality
Total
Chi-square
No
Yes %
N
Place of residence
4.04
Ulaanbaatar
98.93
1.07
100.00
1,309
East
99.14
0.86
100.00
347
West
98.05
1.95
100.00
870
South
98.71
1.29
100.00
233
Central
98.80
1.20
100.00
1,165
Mother’s age
10.66*
<20 years
96.48 3.52
100.00
142
20-29 years
98.38 1.62
100.00
1,909
30+ years
99.20
0.80
100.00
1,873
Mother’s education
0.83
Uncompleted secondary
98.51 1.49
100.00
1,143
Complete secondary
98.64 1.36
100.00
1,401
Tertiary
98.91
1.09
100.00
1,380
Monthly income per person (
₮
)
3.74
<102,535
98.51
1.49
100.00
3,017
≥102,535
99.34 0.66
100.00
907
Ever breastfed
256.68***
No
81.48
18.52
100.00
108
Yes
99.19
0.81
100.00
3,816
Birth order
4.63*
1 & 4+
98.29
1.71
100.00
1,875
2 - 3
99.07
0.93
100.00
2,049
Child’s gender
4.28*
Male
98.34
1.66
100.00
2,045
Female
99.10
0.90
100.00
1,879
Child’s weight
19.95***
<2,500 gm
95.03
4.97
100.00
181
≥2,500 gm
98.88
1.12
100.00
3,743
Source of drinking water
11.04**
Central/local piped
99.23
0.77
100.00
780
Well
98.88
1.12
100.00
2,493
Spring/mineral/rain/snow/river
97.39
2.61
100.00
651
Sanitation facility
1.07
Non-standard
98.60
1.40
100.00
2,991
Standard
99.04
0.96
100.00
933
Iron pill intake
0.18
<90 pills
98.66
1.34
100.00
3,058
≥ 90 pills
98.85
1.15
100.00
866
ANC visit *
6.26*
<4 visits
97.18
2.82
100.00
319
≥4 visits
98.83
1.17
100.00
3,605
Total
3,924
Note:
***
p≤0.001, **p≤0.01, *p≤0.05