Affiliation:
1. Assistant Director, Population Research Centre University of Lucknow.
2. Deputy Director, National Institute of Labour Economics Research & Development, Delhi.
Abstract
Neonatal Deaths are deaths that occur during rst 28 days of life. It is still very high in demographically poor performing States in India termed as
Empowered Action Group (EAG) States. Study using the National Family Health Survey-4 data suggests high neonatal death burden in EAG
States including Odisha. Uttar Pradesh recorded the highest neonatal death at 51.6 deaths per 1000 live births and the lowest was recorded in
Uttarakhand at 32.3 neonatal deaths per 1000 live births. Neonatal deaths in Chhattisgarh were recorded as 48.2 deaths per 1000 live births,
followed by Odisha at 46.9, Madhya Pradesh at 44.9, Bihar at 41.9, Jharkhand at 39.2, Assam at 36.1 and Rajasthan at 34.4 per 1000 live births. The
parametric Cox Hazard model was used to study the unobserved heterogeneity. The Weibull distribution shape parameter value greater than one
suggests considerable unobserved heterogeneity in the data. Considering district as unit of analysis (group level variable), attempt was made to
capture the between district individual variations in neonatal deaths with regard to women educated 12+grades within districts. The low levels of
Intra Class Correlation are suggestive of individual level variations than group level differences in studying the variations in neonatal deaths.
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