Table 2.

Effects of child characteristics on death outcome upon fitting full logit model to MDHS data

	Unweighted Full Logit Model			Weighted Full Logit Model
	2004 DHS	2010 DHS	2015 DHS	2004 DHS	2010 DHS	2015 DHS
Variable	aOR (p-value)	aOR (p-value)	aOR (p-value)	aOR (p-value)	aOR (p-value)	aOR (p-value)
Child’s Sex
Male$\ast$
Female	0.75 ($<0.0001$)	0.85 (0.007)	0.81 (0.019)	0.82 (0.025)	0.86 (0.030)	0.80 (0.016)
Birth order
1$\ast$
2-5	1.24 (0.076)	1.14 (0.189)	0.93 (0.582)	1.25 (0.067)	1.09 (0.325)	0.91 (0.492)
6+	0.80 (0.067)	0.92 (0.325)	1.09 (0.492)	0.81 (0.076)	0.88 (0.189)	1.08 (0.582)
Caesarean birth
No$\ast$
Yes	1.32 (0.249)	1.46 (0.010)	1.65 (0.003)	1.18 (0.633)	1.35 (0.077)	1.64 (0.011)
Delivery type
Singleton $\ast$
Multiple	5.62 ($<0.0001$)	4.62 ($<0.0001$)	4.78 ($<0.0001$)	5.90 ($<0.0001$)	4.48 ($<0.0001$)	4.69 ($<0.0001$)
Birth place
Home or other $\ast$
Health facility	0.99 (0.951)	1.05 (0.482)	0.81 (0.129)	1.07 (0.507)	1.02 (0.809)	0.82 (0.205)
Maternal age
<20 $\ast$
20-34	1.04 (0.903)	1.50 (0.277)	1.18 (0.751)	0.99 (0.975)	1.35 (0.418)	1.21 (0.729)
35-49	1.42 (0.345)	2.24 (0.033)	1.56 (0.406)	1.39 (0.406)	1.97 (0.070)	1.54 (0.453)
Preceding birth-interval
<24 months $\ast$
24 to 36 months	0.54 ($<0.0001$)	0.46 ($<0.0001$)	0.55 ($<0.0001$)	0.55 ($<0.0001$)	0.47 ($<0.0001$)	0.54 ($<0.0001$)
> 36 months	0.44 ($<0.0001$)	0.43 ($<0.0001$)	0.40 ($<0.0001$)	0.43 ($<0.0001$)	0.47 ($<0.0001$)	0.39 ($<0.0001$)
Contraceptive use
Not using $\ast$
Using	0.65 ($<0.0001$)	0.71 ($<0.0001$)	0.61 ($<0.0001$)	0.63 (0.0001)	0.71 ($<0.0001$)	0.58 ($<0.0001$)
Maternal educ
No education $\ast$
Primary	0.93 (0.435)	1.06 (0.452)	1.16 (0.258)	0.91 (0.323)	1.02 (0.835)	1.18 (0.249)
Secondary or above	0.60 (0.815)	0.91 (0.447)	1.08 (0.663)	0.71 (0.189)	0.80 (0.145)	1.10 (0.621)
Maternal job status
Not working $\ast$
Working	1.02 (0.815)	1.10 (0.139)	1.4117 (0.001)	1.02 (0.857)	1.10 (0.203)	1.39 (0.004)
Residence
Urban $\ast$
Rural	1.24 (0.171)	0.87 (0.226)	1.28 (0.101)	1.32 (0.165)	0.91 (0.448)	1.26 (0.173)
Region
Northern $\ast$
Central	1.12 (0.419)	1.23 (0.039)	1.1974 (0.177)	1.15 (0.374)	1.33 (0.008)	1.17 (0.265)
Southern	1.16 (0.290)	1.44 ($<0.0001$)	1.08 (0.535)	1.29 (0.101)	1.55 ($<0.0001$)	1.11 (0.430)
AIC	4786.21	7904.79	4285.79	-	-	-

aOR = adjusted odds ratio; $``{\ast }^{\prime \prime }$ = reference level; $``{-}^{\prime \prime }$ implied weighted model output did not include AIC nor log-likelihood value