Table 2.

Fixed-Effects Logistic Regression Model Results of the Relationship Between sub-Saharan African Children’s Vital Status at the Time of the DHS Survey and Mothers’ Retrospective Report that the Child Resulted from an Unintended (vs. Intended) Pregnancy

	Model 1				Model 2
	Odds Ratio	Coeff.	Sig.	S.E.	Odds Ratio	Coeff.	Sig.	S.E.
Child Vital Status
Deceased	0.74	−0.30	***	0.01	0.77	−0.26	***	0.01
Alive (reference group)	--				--
Child Characteristics
Female	1.01	0.01		0.01	1.01	0.01		0.01
Birth Order	1.04	0.04	***	0.00	1.14	0.13	***	0.00
Time lag between birth and survey (in years)	0.97	−0.03	***	0.00	0.92	−0.08	***	0.00
Maternal and Household Characteristics
Marital Status (at time of survey)
Never Married (reference group)					--
Monogamously Married/Cohabiting					0.39	−0.95	***	0.01
Polygynously Married					0.46	−0.79	***	0.03
Widowed					0.67	−0.40	***	0.02
Divorced/Separated					0.33	−1.12	***	0.01
Has married more than once					1.08	0.08	***	0.01
Age(at time of birth)
15–19 years old					1.21	0.19	***	0.01
20–34 years old (reference group)					--
35+ years old					0.87	−0.14	***	0.01
Highest year of school attained					1.09	0.08	***	0.00
Muslim					0.99	−0.01		0.00
Household Wealth
Poorest (reference group)					--
Poor					1.08	0.07	***	0.01
Average					1.10	0.09	***	0.01
Wealthy					1.13	0.12	***	0.01
Wealthiest					0.96	−0.04	**	0.01
Female household head					1.20	0.18	***	0.01
Rural					1.07	0.06	***	0.01
Model Fit
Log Likelihood	−286976.74				−271652.71

Source: Demographic and Health Survey from 31 sub-Saharan African countries

^*p<.05;

^**p<.01;

^***p<.001

N=189,571