Table 3.

Baseline regression models predicting nutritional status, infant mortality and child mortality

	Nutritional status	Neonatal mortality (odds ratios)	Child mortality rate
Maternal education	4.88*	.956*	.914*
Urban residence	7.49*	.957*	.949*
Wealth	21.03*	.998	.942*
Control variables:
Child age	-2.07*	--
Husband present	-1.68	1.080*	1.078*
Husband-secondary education	8.69*	.957	.951*
Birth order	-3.45*	1.063*	1.081*
Twin	-32.13*	2.745*	1.993*
Female	14.78*	.717*	.859*
Maternal age	1.84*	.984*	.981*
Household size	.35*	.920*	.926*
Mother married	2.60*	.945	.879*
Mother employed	.10	1.086*	1.043*
Constant	-150.35	.099	--

*p < .05