ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF UNDER FIVE CHILD MORTALITY BETWEEN RURAL AND URBAN AREA IN BANGLADESH
Journal Title: Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods - Year 2013, Vol 8, Issue 2
Abstract
Knowledge of factors that affect the under-five year child mortality is important because it pertains to policy and programs. Causes and differences of under-five mortality between rural and urban area help decision makers to assess programmatic needs and prioritize interventions. This paper investigates the causes and differences of under-five mortality between rural and urban area in Bangladesh using Kaplan-Meier, Cox Proportional Hazard (Cox-PH) and Accelerated Failure Time (AFT) Regression model. Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS)-2007 data are used for the study. The results show that for both the areas, survival probability for children whose mothers have higher education is very high and in urban area the failure rate is very high for children of poor economic status. The Cox-PH analysis reveals that risk of death was lower for children whose mothers were matured and higher educated than younger and no educated mother in rural area. In urban area, children from rich family and the 2nd or 3rd child have lower risk of death compared to poor and 1st child. The AFT analysis shows that for both the areas Weibull distribution better fits the data.
Authors and Affiliations
Arfan Raheen AFZAL, Sabrina ALAM
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP136214
- DOI -
- Views 118
- Downloads 0
BANKING SERVICES EVALUATION: A DYNAMIC ANALYSIS
Today, the most important asset for a bank is its customer and therefore, the main targets to achieve by management are: knowledge of his needs, anticipation of his concerns and to distinguish itself in his eyes. The awa...
Production Planning under Uncertain Demands and Yields
The periodic demands of a single product are forecasted and given by a distribution function for each period. The product can be manufactured in n plants with heterogeneous characters. Each plant has its specific stochas...
Perinatal Assistance Network Planning Via Simulation
Consider a geographical region where population is distributed in health districts, and there exists a neonatal care network, which includes birth centres able to supply assistance at three levels, respectively basic ass...
Structural Modeling and Analysis of Intelligent Mobile Learning Environment: A Graph Theoretic System Approach
This paper presents a new methodology using graph theory and matrix algebra to analyze software architecture based on systems engineering approach. It proposes a set of analytical tool to capture the notion of structural...
The Estimation of Maximum Effort in Weight Lifting Processes
Starting from defining the processes connected to lifting weights this article wishes to accomplish a quantitative analysis applied to the lifting processes. Also, based on the data collected at the recently ended Olympi...