Table 2.

Poisson regression analyses of the trend in neonatal, infant, and under-five mortality, 1988–2008 Ghana Demographic and Health Survey

	Neonatal death	Infant death	Under-five death
Year	IRR (95% CI)	IRR (95% CI)	IRR (95% CI)
1988 GDHS	1 (reference)	1 (reference)	1 (reference)
1993 GDHS	0.90 (0.60–1.35)	0.82 (0.58–1.15)	0.62 (0.46–0.84)**
1998 GDHS	0.69 (0.44–1.07)	0.81 (0.57–1.14)	0.76 (0.57–1.01)
2003 GDHS	0.90 (0.59–1.35)	0.85 (0.60–1.19)	0.76 (0.57–1.01)
2008 GDHS	0.73 (0.47–1.12)	0.72 (0.50–1.03)	0.61 (0.45–0.83)**

CI: confidence interval; GDHS: Ghana Demographic and Health Survey; IRR: incidence risk ratio;

^**p<0.01.