Socioeconomic and environmental determinants of under-five mortality in Gamo Gofa Zone, Southern Ethiopia: a matched case control study

Table 2 Association of Socioeconomic-demographic characteristics (distal factors) with child mortality, Gamo Gofa Zone, 2014

Characteristics	Categories	Under-five^a			Infants^a
Characteristics	Categories	AOR	[95% Conf. Interval		AOR	[95% Conf. Interval
Sex of the child	Male	Ref
Sex of the child	Female	0.76	0.57	1.02	0.75	0.52	1.08
Mother’s religion	Protestant	Ref
	Orthodox	1.27	0.86	1.87	1.10	0.67	1.79
	Others	1.19	0.53	2.67	1.40	0.41	4.71
Mother’s Ethnicity	Gamo	Ref
	Zeyse	1.09	0.38	3.17	0.62	0.14	2.82
	Wolayta	1.08	0.48	2.40	0.66	0.25	1.76
	Others	1.66	0.87	3.18	1.37	0.63	2.98
Mother’s education	No formal education	Ref
	Grade1–6	0.95	0.63	1.43	0.97	0.57	1.65
	Grade7–8	0.67	0.35	1.31	0.69	0.31	1.56
	Grade 9 and above	0.34	0.16	0.72	0.37	0.15	0.91
Mother’s Occupation	Farmer	Ref
	House Wife	0.70	0.32	1.52	0.59	0.25	1.38
	Gov’t employee	0.57	0.12	2.76	0.80	0.14	4.61
	Merchant	0.50	0.20	1.28	0.43	0.15	1.28
	Others	1.31	0.44	3.90	1.10	0.33	3.66
Marital status	Married	Ref
	Single	1.22	0.42	3.54	0.49	0.11	2.30
	Others(separated/divorced or widowed)	3.60	1.23	10.47	6.68	1.81	24.71
Husband occupation	Farmer	Ref
	Gov’t employee	0.70	0.31	1.55	0.78	0.30	2.03
	Merchant	1.84	0.92	3.66	1.43	0.66	3.08
	Daily laborer	2.34	1.29	4.23	1.79	0.86	3.74
	Student	1.27	0.42	3.87	1.47	0.32	6.77
	Others	1.67	0.86	3.24	1.54	0.69	3.44
Wealth index of Household	Rich	Ref
	Average	1.49	0.85	2.62	1.51	0.74	3.07
	Poor	1.52	0.93	2.48	1.75	0.97	3.16
Number of individuals living in the house		0.94	0.87	1.03	0.93	0.83	1.03
Maternal power	Poor	Ref
	Average	1.48	0.69	3.19	1.88	0.80	4.44
	Good	0.91	0.65	1.28	0.89	0.57	1.38

^aAdjusted for all variables in the table and all bold values are statistically significant at 0.05

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