Life Table Analysis of Child Survival of Under-Five Age (0-59 Months) Children in Bangladesh
Md. Musa Khan
Citation : Md. Musa Khan, Life Table Analysis of Child Survival of Under-Five Age (0-59 Months) Children in Bangladesh International Journal of Research in Sociology and Anthropology, 2017;3(3): 6-15.
This study uses data extracted from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey (BDHS-2014) to investigate the predictors of child survival of under-five aged (0-59 months) in Bangladesh. The bivariate analysis and life table survival analysis techniques have been used to estimate the significant predictors of child survival in Bangladesh. Parents' education, occupation of father, region, type of toilet facility, access to mass media, type of place of residence, breastfeeding status, birth order, birth spacing with previous child, age of mother, age at first marriage and antenatal visit during pregnancy have been found significant effect on child survival by bivariate analysis and to estimate the probability of child survival by life table survival analysis technique. Finally, these findings suggest that an increase in parents' education, encourage mother to breastfeed to child, make conscious to mother to give birth at child bearing age 20-34 years, get married at legal age, ensure mother birth order little and improve health care services can raise child survival in Bangladesh.