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Table 6.2Infant and Child Mortality 1981-1986, by BackgroundCharacteristics, ODHS, 1986Infant Child Under FiveBackground Mortality Mortality MortalityCharacteristic (lqO) (4ql) (SqO)EducationNone 54 57 109Primary 64 57 117Secondary + (48) (15) (54)Mother's Age atBirthLess than 20 93 74 16020-29 51 53 10230-34 51 48 9735+ 61 58 115Birth OrderI 78 (54) 1282-3 48 47 934-6 51 59 1077+ 63 (56) (116)Birth Interval*Less than 2 yrs, 80 (35) (112)2-3 years 47 60 2054 or more years 45 (68) (110)Total 56 55 108Note:Rates presented include deaths and exposure for1986 through the calendar month preceding the monthof interview.Note: Rates in parenthesis are based on fewer than 500person-years of exposure.* Based On births of order two and higher.Another perspective on infant and child mortality can be obtained by calculating statistics on theproportion dead of children ever born. Overall, the proportion dead of children ever born to women 15-49 is .20 (Table 6.3). In other words, one in five children born to women 15-49 have died. As expected,this proportion varies considerably by age of women. Fewer than one in 12 children born to women 15-19 have died while women 45-49 have lost over one-quarter of their children. The higher proportion deadof children ever born among older women reflects the fact that their children were bom longer ago andhave been exposed longer to the risk of mortality.56