Investigating Child Mortality in Malawi Using Family and Community Random Effects
利用家庭和社区随机效应研究马拉维儿童死亡率
The Malawi Demographic and Health Survey conducted in 1992 collected the retrospective birth histories for a national sample of 4,878 women aged between 15 and 49 years. The sample was randomly selected by a two-stage sampling design. The data consist of biological, demographic, and social variables collected for each birth. This article models the infant and early childhood survival using family and community random effect multipliers on the fixed effect proportional…