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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 4 Adjusted contribution of death clustering to infant mortality in Nigeria, 1980–2013

From: Clustering of infant deaths among Nigerian women: investigation of temporal patterns using dynamic random effects model

Row no.

Probabilities

Computation

1980–1989

(n = 30,330)

1990–1999

(n = 74,211)

2000–2009

(n = 106,478)

≥ 2010

(n = 21,071)

1

Predicted probability of infant death conditional on death of the preceding sibling excluding the first births (p1)

Conditional on the death of the preceding sibling; this was obtained from the probabilities predicted using model parameters

0.1658

0.166

0.1406

0.0929

2

Predicted probability of infant death conditional on survival of the preceding sibling excluding the first births (p0)

Conditional on the survival of the preceding sibling; this was obtained from the probabilities predicted using model parameters

0.0854

0.0849

0.0664

0.0319

3

Adjusted APE [excluding first births] (p1 − p0)

Row 2 − row 1

0.0804

0.0811

0.0742

0.061

4

% infant death explained by clustering

(Row 3/row 3 Table 3) × 100

48.1

47.2

55.4

79.9