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

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Table 2 Linear regression between perinatal, neonatal and infant mortality rate and socioeconomic indicators (separately) in the period 2017–2022

		Education – uncompleted elementary	Education – elementary	Education – uncompleted elementary and elementary	Long-term unemployment	Proportion of the Roma population
Perinatal mortality	Standardised Coefficients (Beta)	.696	.698	.702	.596	.732
	Sig	.000***	.000***	.000***	.000***	.000***
	R²	.485	.488	.493	.355	.537
Neonatal mortality	Standardised Coefficients (Beta)	.615	.462	.469	.540	.562
	Sig	.000***	.000***	.000***	.000***	.000***
	R²	.378	.214	.220	.291	.316
Infant mortality	Standardised Coefficients (Beta)	.675	.651	.655	.707	.759
	Sig	.000***	.000***	.000***	.000***	.000***
	R²	.455	.424	.430	.499	.576

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
^***p ≤ 0.001 (2-tailed); R2 – explained variance

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