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There are also differences in mortality in terms of mother s educational levels and household<br />

wealth. As education and wealth levels rise, infant and under-5 mortality rates lower. While the<br />

infant mortality rate is 62 for the wealthiest quintile, it is 75 for the poorest quintile. Infant<br />

mortality for the children of mothers with no education is 74, while it is notably lower (55) for<br />

the children of mothers with secondary education or higher. Differentials in under-5 mortality<br />

rates by selected background characteristics are shown in Figure 4.1.<br />

In the 2007-2008 National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (NRVA), the infant mortality rate<br />

(IMR) was 111 (per thousand live births) and the under-five mortality rate (U5MR) was 161.<br />

The NRVA applied a similar sampling methodology to that used by <strong>AMICS</strong>, a provincially<br />

representative sample with 20,576 sample households enumerated. Like the <strong>AMICS</strong>, the NRVA<br />

used the indirect method for its child mortality module.<br />

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