Research Article
Magnitude and Risk of Dying among Low Birth Weight Neonates in Rural Ethiopia: A Community-Based Cross-Sectional Study
Table 3
Distribution of neonatal deaths described by maternal sociodemographic and obstetric characteristics, rural Gedeo, Southern Ethiopia, 2016.
| | Variables | Total N (%) | Death N (%) |
| | Age | | | | ≤24 years | 177 (20.0) | 14 (14.4) | | 24-29 years | 380 (42.9) | 37 (38.1) | | ≥30 | 328 (37.1) | 46 (47.7) | | Educational status | | | | No formal education | 518 (58.5) | 49 (50.5) | | Formal education | 367 (41.5) | 48 (49.5) | | Marital status | | | | Married | 827 (93.4) | 85 (87.6) | | Other | 58 (6.6) | 12 (12.4) | | Occupational | | | | House wife | 668 (75.5) | 61 (62.9) | | Employed | 217 (24.5) | 36 (37.1) | | ANC follow up | | | | Yes | 688 (77.7) | 56 (57.7) | | No | 197 (22.3) | 41 (42.3) | | Number of ANC visits (n=688) | | | | < 4 ANC visits | 562 (81.7) | 47 (83.9) | | ≥4 ANC visits | 126 (18.3) | 9 (16.1) | | Mode of delivery | | | | Vaginal delivery | 681 (76.9) | 44 (45.4) | | Assisted delivery | 148 (16.7) | 30 (30.9) | | Cesarean section | 56 (6.3) | 23 (23.7) | | Illness during pregnancy | | | | Yes | 214 (24.2) | 58 (59.8) | | No | 671 (75.8) | 39 (40.2) |
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