Table 3.

Changes in socioeconomic (poor:rich) inequalities in mortality for different ages

Study area/mortality	Poor:Rich					Concentration Index
	1983–5 (1)	1988–0 (2)	1993–5 (3)	1998–0 (4)	(4):(1) (% diff.)	1983–5 (6)	1988–0 (7)	1993–5 (8)	1998–0 (9)	(9):(6) (% diff.)
Neonatal:
1:ICDDR,B	1.10	1.45	1.41	2.00	+81.8%	-0.068	-0.136	-0.088	-0.194	185.3%
2:Government	1.04	1.29	1.53	1.63	+56.7%	-0.051	-0.099	-0.033	-0.090	76.5%
Row 1-Row 2					+25.1
Infant:
1:ICDDR,B	1.09	1.50	1.53	1.97	+80.7%	-0.081	-0.146	-0.107	-0.198	144.4%
2:Government	1.25	1.29	1.54	1.96	+56.8%	-0.087	-0.099	-0.032	-0.199	128.7%
Row 1-Row 2					+23.9
1–4 years
1:ICDDR,B	2.29	2.17	2.03	1.13	-50.6%	-0.197	-0.216	-0.152	-0.090	-54.3%
2:Government	1.72	2.67	2.12	4.36	+153.5%	-0.185	-0.241	-0.143	-0.208	12.4%
Row 1-Row 2					-204.1
Under-5
1:ICDDR,B	1.33	1.65	1.63	1.74	+30.8%	-0.114	-0.161	-0.118	-0.176	54.4%
2:Government	1.40	1.56	1.69	2.28	+116.3%	-0.117	-0.136	-0.057	-0.138	17.9%
Row 1-Row 2					-85.5

Figures in bold preceded by a plus sign denote increases in inequality that were larger in the ICDDR,B area than in the government area. Minus signs before bold figures refer to inequality increases that were smaller (or decreases that were larger) in the ICDDR,B area