Recurrent child mortality risks and parity transition in Nigeria

Abiodun Idowu Adanikin; Sabu S. Padmadas; Nuala McGrath

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Recurrent child mortality risks and parity transition in Nigeria

Abiodun Idowu Adanikin, Sabu S. Padmadas, Nuala McGrath

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Abstract

Background: Fertility rates remain persistently high in Nigeria, with little difference across socioeconomic groups. While the desire for large family size is culturally rooted, there is little understanding of how repeated child mortality experiences influence fertility behaviour and parity transition in Nigeria.

Methods: Using birth history data from the 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS), we applied life table techniques and proportional-hazard regression model to explore the effect of child survival experience on parity transitions. We hypothesize that a woman with one or more child death experience is at elevated risk of progressing towards higher parities.

Results: Our findings show that child mortality is concentrated among mothers living in deprived conditions especially in rural areas of the northern part of Nigeria and among those with little or no education and, among those belonging to Hausa/Fulani ethnicity and Islam religion. Mothers with repeated experience of child deaths were significantly at a higher rate of progressing to higher parities than their counterparts (HR: 1.45; 95% CI: 1.31-1.61), when adjusted for relevant biological and socio-demographic characteristics.

Conclusion: Recurrent experience of child deaths exacerbates the risks to higher parity transition. Interventions aimed at reducing fertility in Nigeria should target promoting child survival and family planning concurrently.

Original language	English
Article number	79
Number of pages	10
Journal	Reproductive Health
Volume	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-019-0733-6
Publication status	Published - 7 Jun 2019
Externally published	Yes

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The research was supported by funding from the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission in the UK.

Keywords

Child mortality
Fertility
Nigeria
Sub-Saharan Africa

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Obstetrics and Gynaecology

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