WATERING THE NEIGHBOUR'S GARDEN: THE GROWING - CICRED

DECREASES IN MALE AND FEMALE MORTALITY AND MISSING WOMEN …
cohorts 1985-89 and 1995-99. However, the odds ratios (differences
between males and females) remained statistically significant in all birth
cohorts except for the 1995-99 cohort in the MCH-FP area.
3.4. Sex-Specific Rank Order of Index Child and Child Mortality
Table 5 highlights the shift in the risk pattern of child mortality by
looking at the sex-specific rank of the index child in the family in the
comparison and the MCH-FP areas over the years.
Table 5 Odds ratios of dying at age 12-59 months, by birth cohort, rank order
and area, Matlab HDSS, 1976-1999
Birth cohorts
Sex of specific rank order of
the child
Comparison area
1976-79 1980-84 1985-89 1990-94 1995-99
First female child (ref) 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
Second female child 1.42** 1.23* 1.26 $ 1.50* 1.38 $
Third or higher order female
child
1.41** 1.34** 1.70** 1.99** 1.43 $
First male child 0.57** 0.53** 0.62** 0.94 0.86
Second male child 0.77* 0.63** 0.84 1.14 0.99
Third or higher order male child
MCH-FP area
0.79* 0.82* 0.84 1.29 1.01
First female child (ref) 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
Second female child 1.26 $ 1.49* 1.28 0.89 0.63
Third or higher order female
child
1.35* 1.47** 1.46* 1.44 $ 1.19
First male child 0.51** 0.75** 0.80 0.69 $ 1.04
Second male child 0.69** 0.64** 0.99 0.89 1.05
Third or higher order male child 0.72* 0.82 1.17 0.83 0.98
Notes: Odds ratios controlled for maternal age and education, household economic status,
religion and number of children of the same women in the same cohort. $P