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Determinants of Under-five Deaths in Urban Parts of Ethiopia

Received: 28 July 2019     Accepted: 27 September 2019     Published: 21 September 2020
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Introduction: Under-five mortality rate is defined as the probability (expressed as a rate per 1 000 live births) of a child born in a specified year dying before reaching the age of five years subject to current age-specific mortality rates (UNICEF 2008). Objects: The objective of this study was to identify determinants of under-five mortality in urban parts of Ethiopia using the 2011 EDHS data. Methods: To achieve the objective of this study descriptive statistics and count regression models were used for data analysis using socio-economic, demographic and environmental related variables as explanatory variables and the number of under-five deaths per mother as the response variables. Results: Information on the number of deaths of under-five children obtained from a total of 1,807 women in the urban parts of Ethiopia was studied. From these, 328 women experienced 513 under-five deaths. From these, 328 women experienced 513 under-five deaths. Conversely, 81.8% of the women in urban areas never experienced under-5 death of their children. Nevertheless, 12%, 3.6%, 1.6%, 0.6%, 0.2%, 0.1% and 0.1% of them lost 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of their under–five deaths, respectively. Conclusion: Factors influencing the number of under-five deaths have been identified. Mother’s level of education, age of mothers at the first birth, toilet facility and work/employment status of mothers were found to be statistically significant with the number of under-five deaths per mothers in urban parts of Ethiopia.

Published in Science Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (Volume 8, Issue 4)
DOI 10.11648/j.sjams.20200804.12
Page(s) 53-59
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Urban, Under Five Mortality, Count Regression Model

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  • Department of Statistics, College of Natural and Computational Science, Injibara University, Injibara, Ethiopia

  • Department of Statistics, College of Natural and Computational Science, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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