Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences

Year: 2011
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Page No. 55 - 61

Parent’s Education and its Impact on Child Mortality: A Case Study at Thakurgaon District in Bangladesh

Authors : Rashed Alam

Abstract: Child mortality is the sensitive indices of development and often reflects a country’s quality of life. Though mortality is a biological process and child mortality is a current important issue in the country. But there is little understanding of whether Bangladesh will be capable of achieving all of the Millennium development goals specially child mortality. For this we have collected information from 500 respondents with a questionnaire to estimate the parent’s education and its impact on child mortality. The purpose of this study is to investigate the differential patterns and influencing factors on various socio-economic and demographic variables specially education that effect on child mortality. To identify the effect and statistical significance we have used the statistical techniques and multivariate analysis named path analysis. The present study shows that some of these selected factors significantly effects on child mortality. These factors are educational status of women, monthly income, age at first marriage, medical checkup during pregnancy and type of delivery.

How to cite this article:

Rashed Alam , 2011. Parent’s Education and its Impact on Child Mortality: A Case Study at Thakurgaon District in Bangladesh. Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences, 8: 55-61.

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