elivery care, maternal education and nutritional status, household access to clean water and sanitation, and other factors. We also found that the mother's education played a protective role against infant death. This evidence suggests that improving maternal education may be key to improving child survival in Nigeria. A well educated has a better chance of satisfying important factors that can improve infant survival: the quality of infant feeding, general care, household sanitation, and adequate use of preventive and curative health services.
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
OAU: Major role in study conception, data extraction, analyses, and writing of the manuscript. MBU: Data extraction, statistical analyses of data and manuscript writing. IY: Data extraction, statistical analyses of data and manuscript writing. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
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Table 1. Sample distribution and infant mortality rate (IMR) among children born during 1999 – 2003 by household wealth status and other selected characteristics, Nigeria 2003*.
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Table 2. Unadjusted and adjusted hazard ratio estimates the risk of multiple-birth mortality before 12 months of age, controlling for several factors among children born during 1999 – 2003, Nigeria 2003‡.
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The author thanks Babara Luke and Albrecht Jahn for critical review of an earlier version of this manuscript. The authors are grateful to Measure DHS for providing them with the 2003 Nigeria DHS data.
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