Do Mothers with Lower Socioeconomic Status Contribute to the Rate of All-Cause Child Mortality in Kazakhstan?

Table 1

Basic demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the sample population, MICS 2015.

		%
Age
15–19	55	0.6
20–24	758	8.2
25–29	1629	17.6
30–34	1748	18.8
35–39	1721	18.5
40–44	1750	18.9
45–49	1617	17.4
Residency
Urban	5501	59.3
Rural	3777	40.7
Educational attainment
Lower secondary	518	5.6
Upper secondary	2148	23.2
Technical and professional	3237	34.9
Higher	3375	36.4
Wealth status
Poorest	1693	18.2
Second	1570	16.9
Middle	1910	20.6
Fourth	1968	21.2
Richest	2137	23.0
Ethnicity
Kazakh	6077	65.5
Russian	2084	22.5
Other ethnic groups	1117	12.0
Frequency of reading newspaper/magazine
Almost every day	1145	12.3
At least once a week	3841	41.4
Less than once a week	2211	23.8
Not at all	2081	22.4
Frequency of listening to radio
Almost every day	1205	13.0
At least once a week	1092	11.8
Less than once a week	888	9.6
Not at all	6093	65.7
Ever had aborted pregnancy
Yes	2598	28.0
No	6679	72.0