Table 1.
Impacts of father and mother death on child mortality
| Child Mortality <1 | Child Mortality <5 | Child Mortality <10 | Child Mortality <15 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mother Death | OR=168.595 b | OR=7.853 | OR=6.851 | OR=4.626 |
| p<0.001 | p<0.001 | p<0.001 | p<0.001 | |
| np=4528 (358)a | np=4329 (560) | np=4072 (643) | np=3889 (684) | |
| na=21 (9) | na=92 (15) | na=181 (25) | na=240 (29) | |
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| Father Death | OR=9.721 | OR=2.960 | OR= 1.970 | OR= 1.494 |
| p=0.153 | p=0.041 | p=0.163 | p=0.350 | |
| np=4532 (358) | np=4329 (560) | np=4072 (643) | np=3889 (684) | |
| na=19 (4) | na=82 (8) | na=181 (12) | na=257 (15) | |
a
Reported n is number of individuals, not risk years; np is the number of individuals with parent present, and na is the number of children with a parent absent. Numbers within parentheses indicate the number of individuals within that group who died.
b
This remarkably high odds ratio is an artifact of controlling for family with so few mother-absent children, as removing the random family term resulted in an odds ratio of 6.011 (p<0.001).
Reprinted from (Winking, et al. n.d.). Controls include community region, birth order, sex and a random family term.