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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 19.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Networks. 2012 May;34(2):264–274. doi: 10.1016/j.socnet.2012.01.001

Table 2.

Likelihood of perceiving increased or unchanging infant mortality by village and compound infant mortality, perinatal mortality among social network alters and controls: n=133 (std. error)

M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M9
Zero- order network mortality coefficients 0.968
(1.217)
1.365*
(0.856)
1.720
(5.161)
5.038
(3.995)
4.032*
(2.772)
3.927**
(2.174)
−0.138
(1.594)
0.873
(1.041)

Proportion own children died under 5 0.276
(1.372)
0.221
(1.386)
0.204
(1.397)
0.275
(1.372)
0.259
(1.382)
0.146
(1.402)
0.159
(1.409)
0.291
(1.371)
0.259
(1.378)
Infant mortality village 2.762
(11.724)
2.226
(11.796)
2.073
(11.928)
2.740
(11.742)
2.604
(11.809)
3.467
(11.862)
4.331
(12.060)
3.130
(11.803)
2.181
(11.805)
Infant mortality compound 1.511
(1.324)
1.471
(1.329)
1.406
(1.340)
1.510
(1.324)
1.444
(1.329)
1.381
(1.345)
1.293
(1.355)
1.513
(1.325)
1.496
(1.326)
Average number of perinatal deaths among alters 0.672
(1.253)
1.208*
(0.890)
Average proportion perinatal deaths among alters 0.187
(5.339)
4.004
(4.137)
Proportion alters with extreme perinatal loss 3.458
(2.897)
3.541*
(2.182)
Proportion alters any perinatal loss −0.434
(1.631)
0.731
(1.075)
Any alter had perinatal loss
Constant −1.206 −1.257 −1.326 −1.210 −1.314 −1.405 −1.477 −1.181* −1.257
Log-likelihood −81.08 −80.93 −80.14 −81.08 −80.6 −80.36 −79.46 −81.04 −80.85
BIC 215.95 220.55 218.97 220.84 219.89 219.4 217.6 220.77 220.38
chi2 3.74 4.02 5.61 3.74 4.69 5.18 6.97 3.81 4.19

Source: compiled by author.

Notes: Controls estimated for sex, age group, town residence, any schooling and opinion concerning best place for childbirth are omitted for each model.

*

p<0.10

**

p<0.05