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

Table 2 Mean survival time of the deceased in the year after the year of birth

Year of birth	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Males
N	24	28	34	26	15	21	27	23	13	23
Mean	171.8	200.8	190.4	170.1	186.3	190	185.1	157.3	193.4	188.7
k2	0.470	0.549	0.522	0.466	0.510	0.520	0.507	0.431	0.529	0.516
Females
N	24	26	11	13	17	12	18	14	11	10
Mean	198.2	150.1	184.0	132.3	185.5	160.5	221.6	151.6	180.7	243.8
k2	0.542	0.411	0.504	0.362	0.508	0.439	0.607	0.415	0.494	0.667
Breslow chi-square statistic (males vs. females)
P-value	0.44	0.042	0.74	0.23	0.96	0.40	0.34	0.60	0.89	0.15

Mean survival time of the deceased in the year after the year of birth yet before the first anniversary (in days) and mean proportion of a calendar year lived (k2), Flemish Region (Belgium), year of birth 1999-2008, by sex

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