Table 2.

Logit regression of determinants under-five mortality in Ghana

Explanatory variables	Coefficient	Odds ratio
Birth order	−0.079 (0.025)***	0.924
Mother’s education (in years)	−0.016 (0.019)
Male (1/0)	0.177 (0.093)*	1.193
Region (base = Upper East)
Northern	0.300 (0.128)***	1.357
Upper West	0.405 (0.129)***	1.506
Father’s education (in years)	−0.0003 (0.002)
Female household head (1/0)	−0.061 (0.137)
Bed net use (base = no net)
Only treated nets	−0.209 (0.094)**	0.812
Only untreated nets	0.041 (0.115)
Household size	−0.028 (0.016)*	0.978
Urban (1/0)	0.286 (0.286)*	1.302
Health facility (1/0)	−0.343 (0.208)*	0.713
Mother’s age (in years)	0.040 (0.007)***	1.041
Wealth index (base = poorest)
Poorer	−0.407 (0.136)***	0.665
Middle	−0.591 (0.207)***	0.560
Richer	−0.234 (0.226)
Richest	−0.730 (0.377)*	0.478
Constant	−3.155 (0.334)***
N	3,839
Pseudo R2	0.028
Prob > χ2	91.14***
Goodness of fit test (p-value)	0.465
Link test (y_hat) (y-hatsq)	0.000 0.432

Source Own computation.

Robust standard errors are in parentheses.

*, **, *** Significant at 10, 5 and 1%, respectively.