Gender, nutritional disparities, and child survival in Nepal

BMC Nutrition

Table 4 Pooled discrete-time hazard models of child survival, all children, NDHS 1996–2006

	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
	HR	95% CI	HR	95% CI	HR	95% CI
Breastfeeding duration (months)	0.96^***	[0.96,0.97]	0.96^***	[0.96,0.97]	0.96^***	[0.96,0.97]
Child is Female	0.94^***	[0.90,0.97]	0.91^***	[0.88,0.95]	0.93^*	[0.87,0.99]
Child’s Birth Order	0.67^***	[0.63,0.70]
1st Born (ref)	0.70^***	[0.66,0.74]
2nd/3rd Born
4th + Born
Birth Order & Sibling Gender
1st Born (ref)
2nd/3rd Born, No Brothers			0.59^***	[0.55,0.63]	0.63^***	[0.58,0.68]
2nd/3rd Born, 1+ Brother(s)			0.71^***	[0.67,0.75]	0.70^***	[0.65,0.75]
4th + Born, No Brothers			0.62^***	[0.54,0.72]	0.66^***	[0.57,0.77]
4th + Born, 1+ Brother(s)			0.77^***	[0.72,0.83]	0.76^***	[0.70,0.83]
Interactions
Female*2nd/3rd Born, No Brothers					0.62^***	[0.51,0.76]
Female*2nd/3rd Born, 1+ Brother(s)					1.02	[0.93,1.12]
Female*4th + Born, No Brothers					0.63^*	[0.41,0.97]
emale*4th + Born, 1+ Brother(s)					1.02	[0.93,1.12]

Notes: Models control for maternal age and education, child age, urban residence, region, household poverty, household size, survey year, interview month, ethnicity, and religion; * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001

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