Table 3. Effect of skilled and unskilled health workers availability on neonatal mortality in poor and rich areas.

	Poor areas	Non-poor areas
Explained reduction by skilled health workers	−6.15%	−8.15%
Explained reduction by unskilled health workers	−1.17%	0.47%
Total explained reduction	−7.32%	−7.68%
Total reduction in neonatal mortality between 1991–2000	7.6	9.5
Percentage explained reduction by skilled health workers	22.80%	18.11%
Percentage explained reduction by all health workers	27.10%	17.10%

Sources: Author’s calculation using the output from Table 2.

Note: Skilled health workers refers to physicians & nurse professional and unskilled health workers to nurse associate & community health workers. Poor refers to minimum comparable areas (MCA) with more than 50% of population below the poverty line, and non-poor otherwise. The explained reduction by skilled health workers for poor and non-poor areas is the sum of the marginal effects estimated in Table 3 for physicians and nurse professionals. Similarly, the explained reduction by unskilled health workers is the sum of the marginal effects for nurse associate and community health worker.