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. 2025 Aug 22;16:7840. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-61350-8

Table 1.

Demographics, SES, and indicators

# Variable Categories for categorical variables Overall total (N = 9307)/n (%)/Median (IQR)
1 Child gender Male 5074 (54.5)
Female 4233 (45.5)
2 Age of child at death (months) 1 (0, 8)
3 Mother’s current age 29 (23, 36)
4 Marital status Never in union 730 (7.8)
Married/living with partner 7612 (81.8)
Widowed/divorced/separated 965 (10.4)
5 Maternal parity 4 (2, 6)
6 Mother’s employment status Yes 5916 (63.6)
No 3391 (36.4)
7 Mother’s education level No Education 3962 (42.6)
Primary 3046 (32.7)
Secondary 2067 (22.2)
Higher 232 (2.5)
8 Wealth quintile Lowest 2481 (26.7)
Low 2180 (23.4)
Middle 1917 (20.6)
High 1568 (16.8)
Highest 1161 (12.5)
9 Rural/urban home Urban 2685 (28.8)
Rural 6622 (71.2)