Child illness sample* | Child death sample** | |
---|---|---|
Mean/% | Mean/% | |
Key variables | ||
Child morbidity (# of symptoms) | 0.69 (0.86)* | |
Child mortality (% ever died) | 14.12* | |
Family structure | ||
Divorced mother | 8.90* | 9.08* |
Never-married mother | NA | NA |
Widowed mother | 1.79* | 2.39* |
Polygynously married mother | 32.98* | 33.73* |
Monogamously married (ref) | 56.33* | 54.80* |
Subnational region-level prevalence of divorced women (%) | 7.05 (4.15)* | 6.92 (4.15)* |
Selection indicators | ||
Marital conflict | ||
Mother experienced domestic violence1 | 20.37* | 19.96* |
Socioeconomic resources | ||
Mother’s years of formal schooling | 2.91 (3.45)* | 2.78 (3.42)* |
Household wealth | ||
Poorest | 28.73* | 28.50* |
Poor | 23.66* | 23.60* |
Average | 19.88* | 20.00 |
Rich | 16.74* | 16.86* |
Richest | 10.99* | 11.04* |
Child-level controls | ||
Female | 50.00 | 49.50 |
Multiple birth | 3.04 | 3.87 |
Maternal age at birth | 29.21 (6.78)* | 27.92 (6.95)* |
Birth order | 4.57 (2.41)* | 4.27 (2.46)* |
Length of preceding birth interval | ||
First born | 7.63* | 12.38* |
Short interval | 44.55* | 47.97* |
Long interval | 47.82* | 39.65* |
Subnational region-level controls | ||
Average years of schooling among adult women | 4.09 (2.28)* | 4.02 (2.28)* |
Adult women’s employment (%) | 66.65 (16.33)* | 66.43 (16.43)* |
Rural (% households rural) | 71.84 (21.61)* | 71.75 (21.31)* |
*N=33,009; **N=94,209 children.
1Among subsample of countries with domestic violence module.