Research Article
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 |
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