Being the younger child in a large African Family: a study of birth order as a risk factor for poor health using the demographic and health surveys for 18 countries

Table 3 Descriptive statistics for variables in cox proportional hazard model

	Mean	C.I.
Child Characteristics:
Birth Order (continuous)	3.67	[3.65, 3.68]
Male Child Gender	0.51	[0.50, 0.51]
Child’s Birth Date (In years since 1900)	90.03	[89.88, 90.18]
Mother Characteristics:
Age at Child’s Birth (continuous years)	25.13	[25.11, 25.15]
No Formal Education	0.51	[0.51, 0.52]
Not Married	0.10	[0.09, 0.10]
Ideal Number of Children (continuous)	6.32	[6.27, 6.36]
Household Characteristics:
Household located in Rural Area	0.75	[0.74, 0.75]
Household Size	8.24	[8.17, 8.30]
Natural (Unmodified) Flooring	0.53	[0.52, 0.54]
No Flushable Toilet	0.83	[0.83, 0.84]
N	597,101

Note: Includes all children (regardless of year born) of mothers alive in survey year; restricted to children whose mothers were 18–34 at child’s birth and were 30–44 years old at the time of interview, and to children in families with 4+ children ever born to surveyed mothers. Excludes children in infancy or who died in infancy. Maternal characteristics are at time of survey, except for age at child’s birth

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