Levels And Patterns Of Child Mortality: Application Of Indirect Techniques

Abstract

The child mortality has been recognized as an excellent summary index of the standard of living and socio-economic development as well as community health system of a country. And it has been considered as a frantic topic to population research in Bangladesh. The purpose of this study is to estimate the general levels and patterns of child mortality in Natore Sadar upazila. The results show the probabilities of dying (nq0) by Brass, Trussel and Sullivan indicate that are higher for early age group of mother then decline in middle age group and again start to increase with the age of mother increases. The result implies upward patterns of male child mortality over female child but male child mortality patterns for Trussel technique stretch out upward to the patterns of other two techniques. The estimated probability of dying in case of duration of marriage, the male child mortality is higher over female child mortality of all marriage duration groups and the shorter as well as the longer duration, the probability of dying both for male and female are always shown upward patterns. In the study it can be observed baby born to mother below aged 19 years as well as above aged 35 or to mother whose duration of marriage year is less than 4 years as well as greater than 20 years has highest mortality risk.