Table 1.

Characteristics of children born during the four years and five years preceding the survey in states^b with high and medium/low levels of post neonatal mortality, NFHS-1 and NFHS-3 respectively

Characteristics		States with level of PNMRa
		NFHS-1			NFHS-3
		High	Medium/low	All	High	Medium/low	All
Sex of the child	Male	51.3	50.8	51.1	51.8	52.6	52.1
	Female	48.7	49.2	48.9	48.2	47.4	47.9
Size at birth
	Large/average	77.7	77.1	77.4	76.8	77.5	77.1
	Small	20.3	22.2	21.1	23.2	22.5	22.9
	Not available	2.1	0.7	1.4
Mother’s age at birth
	Less than 20 years	20.8	26.5	23.3	19.4	22.0	20.5
	20 - 34 years	72.2	70.5	71.4	75.1	75.7	75.3
	35 years or more	7.0	3.0	5.2	5.5	2.2	4.2
Birth order
	1	24.4	31.8	27.7	25.7	37.4	30.4
	2 -- 3	38.3	45.7	41.6	39.9	49.6	43.8
	4 or more	37.2	22.6	30.7	34.4	13.1	25.8
Interval since last birth
	First birth/preceding birth interval 2 years or more	81.3	82.2	81.7	72.5	74.1	73.1
	Preceding birth interval less than 2 years	18.7	17.8	18.3	27.5	25.9	26.9
Antenatal & natal care
	Yes	42.7	81.7	59.9	61.3	86.8	71.6
	No	57.3	18.3	40.1	38.7	13.2	28.4
Residence
	Urban	16.2	31.1	22.7	18.2	36.0	25.4
	Rural	83.9	68.9	77.3	81.8	64.0	74.6
Mother’s education
	Illiterate	76.9	53.8	66.7	61.9	31.6	49.7
	Literate, < middle school complete	11.5	22.6	16.4	17.3	27.9	21.6
	Middle school complete & above	11.6	23.6	16.9	20.8	40.5	28.7
Mother’s occupation
	Non gainful occupation	89.5	77.7	84.3	62.2	67.8	64.4
	Working for someone else	8.4	19.6	13.3	37.8	32.2	35.6
	Self employed	2.2	2.6	2.4
Caste
	Scheduled caste (SC)	10.8	6.7	9.0	21.6	21.0	21.4
	Scheduled tribe (ST)	14.7	12.0	13.5	10.1	8.1	9.3
	Other than SC/ST	74.5	81.3	77.5	68.3	70.9	69.3
Standard of living index
	Low	41.0	38.5	39.9	35.0	22.8	30.1
	Medium	46.8	45.9	46.4	32.2	30.4	31.5
	High	9.7	14.1	11.7	22.7	37.5	28.7
	Not available	2.4	1.5	2.0	10.1	9,3	9.7

^a PNMR Post Neonatal Mortality Rate

^bNorth eastern states are excluded