Trends in the association between educational assortative mating, infant and child mortality in Nigeria

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Percentage of the distribution of the pooled sample characteristics N = 72,527: 2008–2018 Nigeria DHS

Variable	n	%	Variable	n	%	Mean	SD
Gender			Mother’s age (in years)	72,527		29.3	6.8
Male	36,962	51.0	No. of living children	72,527		3.7	2.1
Female	35,565	49.0	Mother’s employment †	72,462
Birth order			Not employed	24,248	33.5
Firstborn	13,292	18.3	employed	48,214	66.5
2-3rd	24,431	33.7	Source of drinking water †	72,082
4th +	34,804	48.0	Unimproved	41,312	57.3
Birth interval ^a	72,643		Improved	30,770	42.7
< 24 months	14,234	19.7	Distance to medical facility †	72,348
> 24 months	58,409	80.3	A big problem	24,649	34.1
Perceived birth weight ^a	71,100		Not a problem	47,699	65.9
Small	10,249	14.4	Household wealth index	72,527		−0.2	1.0
Average	31,638	44.5	Religion †	72,258
Large	29,213	41.1	Muslim	27,306	37.8
Type of Birth			Christian	44,047	61.0
Singleton	70,025	96.6	Others	905	1.2
Multiple births	2502	3.4	Geopolitical zone
Place of delivery ^a	72,065		Northcentral	12,322	17.0
Non-medical	46,208	64.1	Northeast	15,936	22.0
Medical	25,857	35.9	Northwest	22,515	31.0
			Southeast	6647	9.2
			Southsouth	7101	9.8
			Southwest	8006	11.0
			Metropolitan status
			Urban	23,041	31.8
			Rural	49,486	68.2

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