Association of socioeconomic disadvantage and ethnicity with perinatal neonatal, and infant mortality in Slovakia

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Table 1 Basic data on perinatal, neonatal and infant mortality and socioeconomic indicators for the Slovak population in the period 2017–2022

	Slovakia total	District with a minimum value	District with maximum value
Perinatal mortality	5.02‰	1.44‰	11.01‰
Neonatal mortality	2.97‰	0.00‰	12.89‰
Infant mortality	5.00‰	0.48‰	16.57‰
Education elementary^a	16.97%	8.06%	29.15%
Education uncompleted elementary^a	0.28%	0.07%	0.75%
Long-term unemployment	40.14%	14.71%	61.07%
Proportion of Roma population^b	7.63%	0.00%	33.12%

Source of data: Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic, Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic, Office of the Government Plenipotentiary for Roma Community, Institute for Work and Family Research
^aPopulation census, 2021
^bSociographic mapping of Roma settlements, 2019

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