Statistical Modeling of the Number of Deaths of Children in Bangladesh

maternal age and education are found to be strongly correlated with child morality [1,5-11]. Although the relationship between parental education and the number of children’s death is complex, a number of studies have illustrated that children of less educated parents tend to have a higher mortality rate than children of welleducated ones [6,9,10-13]. Parental education, more importantly maternal education, is identified as a strong predictor of child morality [5,9-11]. Other determinants of child mortality may include rural-urban residency [1,3,11,13,14], number of children in a household [1,3,14], water source [1,12] and toilet facility [1,5,11,14]. Most of these studies related to children’s mortality and children’s survival used proportional hazards models and multivariable logistic regression [8]. For instance, Bhuiya et al. [8] applied a proportional hazard models to study strong relationships with childhood mortality in Bangladesh. Majumder et al. [9] used multivariate analysis to identify socioeconomic and environmental determinants of children survival in Bangladesh. Chowdhury et al. [11] used multivariate proportional hazards models to find covariates that associated with neonatal and post-neonatal mortality in Bangladesh. Some studies addressed the number of malnourished children [2-5]. As no literature is available to the best of our knowledge regarding total number of children’s death among the women of age group 12-49 years in Bangladesh, we attempt to explore the nature of the number of children’s deaths and to identify associated risk factors/ covariates in this study.