caa a22 4500 386396477 CHVBK 20180307112140.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021932000017910 doi S0021932000017910 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021932000017910 Ethnic differentials in early childhood mortality in Nepal [Elektronische Daten] This paper investigates the association of early childhood mortality (between birth and second birthday) with ethnicity in Nepal, based on data from the 1976 Nepal Fertility Survey, which was part of the World Fertility Survey. The approach is through a series of hazard models, which incorporate ethnicity, year of birth, mother's illiteracy, father's illiteracy, rural-urban residence, region, sex, maternal age, survival of previous birth, previous birth interval, and breast-feeding as covariates. Ethnic differentials in early childhood mortality are not explained by the other socioeconomic and demographic covariates, except for a modest effect of illiteracy, but the remaining covariates explain a great deal of variability in early childhood mortality itself. Analysis using an improved specification of breast-feeding as an age-varying covariate indicates, on average, that breast-feeding, relative to not breast-feeding, reduces age-specific mortality risks during the first 2 years of life by 76%, a very large effect. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Choe Minja Kim Population Institute, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Retherford Robert D. Population Institute, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Gubhaju Bhakta B. Family Planning and Maternal and Child Health Project, Ministry of Health, Kathmandu, Nepal Thapa Shyam Family Health International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA Journal of Biosocial Science Cambridge University Press 21/2(1989-04), 223-233 0021-9320 21:2<223 1989 21 JBS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000017910 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932000017910 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Choe Minja Kim Population Institute, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Retherford Robert D. Population Institute, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gubhaju Bhakta B. Family Planning and Maternal and Child Health Project, Ministry of Health, Kathmandu, Nepal NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Thapa Shyam Family Health International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Biosocial Science Cambridge University Press 21/2(1989-04), 223-233 0021-9320 21:2<223 1989 21 JBS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge