Table 2

Multivariate logistic regression of under-5 mortality: regression coefficients and significance in the 13 countries, Demographic and Health Surveys 2007–2010

	DRCongo 2007	Egypt 2008	Ghana 2008	Kenya 2008/2009	Lesotho 2009/2010	Liberia 2007	Madagascar 2008/2009	Malawi 2010	Nigeria 2008	Sao Tome & Principe 2008/2009	Sierra Leone 2008	Tanzania 2009/2010	Zambia 2007
N (10³)	8.3	10.7	2.7	5.4	3.5	4.6	11.3	19.4	26.9	1.8	4.9	7.6	5.6
Low household wealth	0.07	0.38	−0.58	0.02	0.02	0.09	0.07	−0.03	0.10	0.51	0.18	0.18	−0.20
No skilled birth attendance	0.20	0.01	−0.23	−0.13	0.34	0.02	0.13	0.07	−0.03	−0.57	0.31	0.06	0.00
Male	0.24	0.30	0.08	0.32	0.36	0.20	0.05	0.29	0.13	1.28	−0.17	0.29	0.20
Birth 2−4 short	0.00	0.61	−0.50	0.22	0.09	0.23	0.13	0.12	0.44	1.66	0.09	0.24	0.15
Birth 2−4 long	−0.51	−0.24	−0.44	−0.27	−0.53	−0.26	−0.16	−0.50	−0.28	1.07	−0.56	−0.25	−0.46
Birth 5+ short	0.42	0.80	0.78	0.01	0.49	0.41	0.80	0.41	0.82	2.96	0.71	0.08	0.00
Birth 5+ long	−0.40	0.47	−0.30	−0.36	−0.35	−0.03	0.22	−0.54	0.13	0.87	−0.25	−0.40	−0.67
Mother's age at birth <20	0.03	0.15	0.08	−0.30	−0.44	0.27	0.12	−0.20	0.25	−0.09	0.19	−0.10	−0.18
Rural residence	0.09	−0.07	0.19	0.00	0.13	−0.02	0.05	−0.12	0.33	−1.28	−0.51	−0.28	−0.35
Mother low education	0.34	−0.35	0.08	0.18	0.30	−0.25	−0.13	0.17	0.10	1.56	−0.10	0.00	0.12
Father low education	−0.04	0.17	0.36	0.61	−0.10	0.32	0.02	0.02	0.07	−0.19	0.22	0.01	0.23
Mother household	−0.02	−0.35	0.34	−0.36	−0.35	−0.19	0.17	−0.07	−0.14	0.05	−0.04	0.27	−0.11
Mother agriculture	0.14	−0.84	0.14	−0.19	−0.24	−0.49	0.03	−0.10	−0.07	1.40	0.12	−0.27	0.12
Father household	0.24	0.58	0.93	0.19	0.11	0.31	−0.41	0.23	0.07	1.20	0.09	−0.51	0.06
Father agriculture	0.22	0.28	0.44	0.37	0.12	0.11	0.06	0.01	−0.02	0.77	0.08	0.12	0.05
Region 2	0.18	−0.76	0.38	−0.11	0.67	0.27	0.29	0.05	0.17	−0.73	0.06	−0.27	−0.24
Region 3	−0.08	−0.40	0.25	−0.31	0.11	0.46	−0.28	0.16	0.18	−1.10	0.28	−0.63	0.36
Region 4	0.17	−0.49	−0.38	−0.50	0.27	0.18	0.04		0.19	−0.65	0.34	0.16	0.03
Region 5	−0.17		0.54	0.32	0.36	0.41	−0.30		0.01			0.51	0.18
Region 6	−0.33		0.35	−1.02	0.29	0.40	−0.19		−0.29			0.11	0.28
Region 7	0.41		−0.04	−0.24	0.34							0.65	−0.20
Region 8	0.22		0.61	−0.85	0.22							0.78	0.02
Region 9	0.43		−0.17		0.14							0.34	0.00
Region 10	0.07		0.73		0.08							−0.39	−1.97
Region 11	0.02											0.85
Region 12												0.30
Region 13												−0.27
Region 14												0.29
Region 15												0.55
Region 16												0.54
Region 17												0.34
Region 18												0.58
Region 19												0.31
Region 20												1.30
Region 21												−1.07
Region 22												0.09
Region 23												0.29

Occupation other: Prof., Tech., Manag., Clerical, Sales, Services, Skilled manual, other. Household: Did not work, Household & Domestic, Unskilled manual, None. Agriculture: Agric-self-employed, Agric-employee.
Significant regression coefficients (p<0.01) are in bold. To avoid overloading the table, CIs and exact p values are presented in an online supplementary appendix.