Socioeconomic determinants of child mortality:Evidence from Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey

Rana Khan (), Khadija Bari () and Muhammad Ali Raza ()

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Abstract: This paper attempts to highlight socioeconomic determinants of child mortality in Pakistan. Binary logistic regression is applied to 7297 observations from the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2012-13. The results reveal that probability of child mortality decreases with greater birth-interval, child’s large size at birth, more family members, mother’s education, mother’s ownership of assets and mother’s decision-making at the household level. Policy makers can work to improve mothers’ characteristics such as fertility behavior, education, empowerment and decision-making at the household level, to reduce child mortality.

Keywords: Child; mortality; Fertility; behavior; Women; empowerment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I10 I12 I15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-12-01
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Published in Business Review 13.2(2018): pp. 34-50

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