Table 1.
Child Mortality <1 | Child Mortality <5 | Child Mortality <10 | Child Mortality <15 | |
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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) |
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.
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.