Maternal Mortality and Female Literacy Rates in Developing Countries during 1970–2000: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis

Table 5

Estimates of the univariate growth trajectories for maternal mortality ratios and female literacy rates in developing countries (1970–2000).

	Initial level		Rate of change		Fit indexes
Variable	Mean	Variance	Mean	Variance	CFI	NFI
Maternal mortality ratios	343.08*	610.61*	11.42*	1437.7*	0.998	0.992
Female literacy rates	50.33*	746.86*	9.98*	31.46*	0.919	0.914

^∗𝑃<0.05.