Table 6.

Sobel test

	Maternal mortality				Under-5 mortality
	B	S.E	Z	P-value	B	S.E	Z	P-value
Indirect effect	-0.0412	0.0079	-5.2420	< 0.001	-0.0352	0.0056	-6.2707	< 0.001
Direct effect	-2.7787	0.0454	-61.2026	< 0.001	-1.8629	0.0257	-72.5488	< 0.001
Total effect	-2.8199	0.0453	-62.1865	< 0.001	-1.8982	0.0259	-73.3579	< 0.001

Note: When |Z| > 1.96 and P < 0.05, the mediating effect can be considered significant