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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of infant mortality outcome by study characteristics

From: Application of machine learning methods for predicting infant mortality in Rwanda: analysis of Rwanda demographic health survey 2014–15 dataset

Characteristics

Frequency

Percentage

Infant Survival Status

  Death

1952

6.5

  Alive

28,106

93.5

Place of Residence

  Urban

6069

20.2

  Rural

23,989

79.8

Marital status

  Single

1146

3.8

  Married

17,696

58.9

  Living with partner

6215

20.7

  Widowed

2467

8.2

  Divorced/separated

2534

8.4

Maternal Education

  No formal education

6778

22.5

  Primary

20,409

67.9

  Secondary and over

2871

9.6

Employment status

  Employed/ self-employed 1

28,546

95.0

  Unemployed 2

1512

5.0

Household Wealth Index

  Low

12,610

42.0

  Middle

6008

20.0

  High

11,440

38.1

Maternal age at first birth

  Below 20 year old

9770

32.5

  20–34 years old

20,217

67.3

  35 years old and over

71

0.2

Sex of child

  Male

15,216

50.6

  Female

14,842

49.4

Birth order

  1 or 2 birth

15,532

51.7

  3 or 4 birth

8601

28.6

  5 births and over

5925

19.7

Birth interval

  Less 24 months

5479

18.2

  24 months and over

15,720

52.3

  First births

8859

29.5

  Birth interval

5479

18.2

Children ever born

  1–3 children

9701

32.3

  4–6 children

12,698

42.2

  Over 6 children

7659

25.5

Breastfeeding

  Yes

11,862

39.5

  No

18,196

60.5

Source of drinking water

  Improved

11,802

39.3

  Not improved

18,256

60.7

Type of toilet facility

  Improved 1

28,638

95.3

  Not improved 2

1420

4.7

Type of cooking

  Improved

4146

13.8

  Not improved

25,912

86.2

  1. Concerning the toilets, we used two categories of toilet facility
  2. 1Babies’s stools are considered to be disposed of safely if the child used a toilet or latrine, if the faecal matter was put or rinsed into a toilet or latrine, or if it was buried
  3. 2Facilities that would be considered improved if they were not shared by two or more households. Also, those who had no toilet facility
  4. Regarding the type of cooking, two categories that include improved and non-improved were done:
  5. 1Improved cooking consisted of those who used gas or biogas, kerosene, electrify or charcoal
  6. 2Non-improved include the babies from the families which utilised wood, straw, shrubs, grass, agricultural crop, no food cooked in household
  7. In terms of the mother's employment, we divided it into two categories: (1) employed and self-employed; (2) unemployed
  8. 1 Employed and self-employed are those who have generating income on regular basis
  9. 2 Unemployed women consist of those who have no generating income on regular basis