Infant mortality in the Flemish Region of Belgium 1999-2008: a time-to-event analysis

Table 1 Mean survival time of the deceased in their year of birth

Year of birth	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Males
N	145	135	134	127	123	107	107	123	145	141
Mean	29.8	32.7	30.6	37.1	34.4	24.5	34.4	31.3	27	29.6
k1	0.082	0.089	0.084	0.102	0.094	0.067	0.094	0.086	0.074	0.081
Females
N	114	113	88	87	99	106	112	108	105	107
Mean	39.6	35.0	35.8	43.1	29.6	23.8	26.3	31.9	31.8	31.0
k1	0.109	0.095	0.098	0.118	0.081	0.065	0.072	0.087	0.087	0.085
Breslow chi-square statistic (males vs. females):
P-value	0.26	0.96	0.39	0.93	0.73	0.45	0.15	0.93	0.60	0.88

Mean survival time of the deceased in their year of birth (in days) and mean proportion lived during that year (k1), Flemish Region (Belgium), 1999-2008, by sex

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