Table 3.
Relative risk estimates for analysis of under-five child death in Bangladesh using the Poisson regression model.
| Variables | Overall | Mother’s attitude towards domestic violence (beating by husband’s) |
Mother had been physically attacked |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not justified | Somewhat Justified | Justified | Yes | No | ||
| Mother’s education | ||||||
| No Education(R) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Primary | 0.90** | 0.88** | 0.97 | 0.80 | 1.19 | 0.88*** |
| Secondary | 0.84*** | 0.81*** | 0.95 | 0.71 | 1.70 | 0.83*** |
| Higher Secondary+ | 0.713*** | 0.69*** | 0.73 | 0.64 | 1.14 | 0.70*** |
| Mother’s age at first marriage (in years) | ||||||
| <18 (R) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| 18+ | 0.97 | 1.02 | 0.88 | 0.91 | 0.83 | 0.98 |
| Mother’s internet use | ||||||
| No (R) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Yes | 0.83** | 0.83* | 0.77 | 1.13 | 1.20 | 0.82*** |
| Place of residence | ||||||
| Urban (R) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Rural | 1.035 | 0.99 | 1.08 | 2.08** | 0.78 | 1.05 |
| Division | ||||||
| Barishal (R) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Chattogram | 1.11 | 1.10 | 1.21 | 1.75 | 1.21 | 1.12 |
| Dhaka | 1.38*** | 1.27** | 1.61*** | 2.35 | 1.65 | 1.37*** |
| Khulna | 1.55*** | 1.45*** | 1.78*** | 2.99 | 1.51 | 1.56*** |
| Mymenshing | 1.46*** | 1.32** | 2.01*** | 1.79 | 1.00 | 1.47*** |
| Rajshahi | 1.52*** | 1.57*** | 1.47** | 1.49 | 1.68 | 1.51*** |
| Rangpur | 1.38*** | 1.42*** | 1.20 | 2.31 | 1.67 | 1.36*** |
| Sylhet | 1.35*** | 1.27* | 1.59** | 2.29 | 1.04 | 1.35*** |
| Wealth index | ||||||
| Poor (R) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Middle | 0.93* | 0.93* | 0.94 | 0.85 | 1.01 | 0.92* |
| Upper | 0.73*** | 0.71*** | 0.83 | 0.63 | 0.55 | 0.74*** |
| Mother's age at first birth (in years) | ||||||
| <20 (R) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| 20+ | 0.78*** | 0.78*** | 0.81** | 0.70 | 0.67 | 0.79*** |
| Gender of child | ||||||
| Boy(R) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Girl | 0.68*** | 0.68*** | 0.69*** | 0.68** | 0.94 | 0.67*** |
| Children ever born | ||||||
| 1-2 child (R) | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| 3-6 child | 6.42*** | 6.14*** | 7.69*** | 4.91*** | 7.10*** | 6.38*** |
| 7+ | 13.30*** | 11.50*** | 17.52*** | 14.43*** | 22.48*** | 12.90*** |
| Access to mass media | ||||||
| No access at all | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Limited access | 0.80*** | 0.78*** | 0.95 | 0.55*** | 0.91 | 0.80*** |
| Full access | 0.39*** | 0.38*** | 0.55* | 0.01 | 0.76 | 0.38*** |
Source: Author’s elaboration using MICS 2019 survey dataset.Note: R = Reference Category, *p < 0.10, **p < 0.05; ***p < 0.01.