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

Table 8

Values imputed to variables with missing values.

Variable	Region	1980	1990	2000
Fem. Lit	1	72.52	74.03	77.73
	2	27.83	49.48	50.13
	3	53.04	61.71	96.69
	4	76.23	81.62	88.49
	5	33.08	38.13	63.28
	6	39.18	43.31	60.64
Age marry	1	22.5	22.98	22.8
	2	19.79	21.82	21.48
	3	21.77	22.66	24.7
	4	23.87	24.97	23.03
	5	22.1	24.55	25.03
	6	19.48	20.5	21.47
GDP	1	865.0	1154.0	1447.0
	2	825.0	932.0	979.0
	3	1762.0	1718.0	1459.0
	4	1464.0	1894.0	3168.0
	5	1698.0	1757.0	2033.0
	6	238.0	448.0	764.0
Mat. Mort	1	326.5	321.0	232.0
	2	508.02	654.15	759.0
	3	56.83	46.5	36.9
	4	108.08	145.88	119.0
	5	346.55	240.41	155.0
	6	782.875	622.55	505.0

Codes for regions: 1 = East Asia/Pacific, 2 = Africa, 3 = Europe and central Asia, 4 = Latin America, 5 = Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and 6 = South Asia.