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Risk Factors for Infant Mortality in Nineteenth-Century Sweden.
- Source :
- Population Studies; Mar1994, Vol. 48 Issue 1, p117-133, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 1994
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Abstract
- This study examines risk factors for infant mortality using individual-level data from a sample of parishes in northern Sweden in the nineteenth century. Sweden is of particular interest because of its unusually regular pattern of infant mortality decline during the century. We follow a sample of women longitudinally through their successive pregnancies and observe the mortality experience of each child. Exploratory and multivariate logistic regression analyses reveal an important intra-familial dimension to infant mortality that appears from the early stages of a woman's reproductive career. In addition, multivariate analyses by birth-order group suggest that ignoring intra-familial correlations of infant mortality may result in incorrect inferences. Siblings' shared probabilities of dying as infants suggest that high-birth-order children were not necessarily disadvantaged in any systematic way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- INFANT mortality
REGRESSION analysis
LABOR (Obstetrics)
PREGNANCY
BIRTH order
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00324728
- Volume :
- 48
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Population Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 7979773
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0032472031000147506