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International Journal of
Population Studies Early marriage and infant mortality in SSA

Table 4. (Continued)
Variables Model 3 Model 4 Model 5 Model 6 Model 7
Multiple 3.93 (2.43 – 6.35)*** 3.97 (2.44 – 6.47)***
Antenatal care visits
<4 1.00 1.00
4+ 0.75 (.58 – 0.97)* 0.75 (0.58 – 0.98)*
Place of delivery
Facility-based 1.00 1.00
Home 1.31 (1.01 – 1.69) 1.35 (.096 – 1.89)
Other 0.78 (0.33 – 1.81) 0.90 (0.37 – 2.17)
Country
Nigeria (RC) 1.00
Angola 1.06 (0.42 – 2.69)
Benin 0.80 (0.37 – 1.73)
Burkina Faso 1.79 (1.00 – 3.22)*
Burundi 1.33 (0.54 – 3.29)
Cameroon 0.71 (0.34 – 1.49)
Chad 1.47 (0.78 – 2.43)
Congo 1.59 (0.61 – 4.14)
Congo DR 1.77 (0.77 – 4.07)
Comoros 1.30 (0.44 – 3.78)
Cote D'Ivoire 1.68 (0.67 – 4.15)
Gabon 0.36 (0.09 – 1.38)
Ghana 0.06 (0.01 – 0.51)**
Guinea 2.21 (1.09 – 4.48)*
Kenya 1.20 (0.57 – 2.52)
Lesotho 0.58 (0.21 – 1.59)
Liberia 0.52 (0.12 – 2.18)
Malawi 0.60 (0.24 – 1.47)
Mali 0.83 (0.40 – 1.74)
Mozambique 1.31 (0.49 – 3.48)
Namibia 1.31 (0.28 – 6.00)
Niger 0.82 (0.35 – 1.94)
Rwanda 0.93 (0.30 – 2.89)
South Africa 1.20 (0.24 – 5.92)
Sierra-Leone 2.93 (1.43 – 5.83)**
Tanzania 0.48 (0.15 – 1.52)
Uganda 0.95 (0.52 – 1.72)
Zambia 1.09 (0.32 – 3.68)
Zimbabwe 1.09 (0.41 – 2.85)
Note: *p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001.
Abbreviation: RC: Reference category.

Our multivariable analysis explored the independent children of women who were first married before age 15
effects of child marriage on infant mortality and its results and at the age range of 15 – 17 were found to confront
established an association between the two variables: elevated danger of dying in the 1 year of their life. The
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