Table 4 Schoenfeld residual test for checking proportional hazard assumption for the incidence of under-five mortality and its predictors among live births in the 12 East African countries
Variables | Rho | Chi2 | Df | Prob > chi2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Residence | 0.006 | 0.23 | 1 | 0.62 |
Country | −0.022 | 3.54 | 1 | 0.06 |
Wealth index | −0.04 | 12.48 | 1 | 0.0004 |
Sex of child | 0.045 | 16.53 | 1 | < 0.001 |
Women education | −0.02 | 2.95 | 1 | 0.09 |
Husband education | −0.034 | 8.53 | 1 | 0.004 |
Place of delivery | −0.022 | 3.56 | 1 | 0.06 |
ANC visit | 0.084 | 58.48 | 1 | < 0.001 |
Birth interval | −0.006 | 0.23 | 1 | 0.63 |
Mode of delivery | −0.03 | 5.54 | 1 | 0.02 |
Birth outcome | −0.08 | 42.99 | 1 | < 0.001 |
Maternal age | 0.04 | 13.76 | 1 | 0.0002 |
Media exposure | −0.011 | 0.90 | 1 | 0.34 |
Wanted pregnancy | 0.018 | 2.24 | 1 | 0.13 |
Distance to health facility | −0.017 | 2.04 | 1 | 0.15 |
Covered by health insurance | 0.0006 | 0.001 | 1 | 0.96 |
Women autonomy | 0.0007 | 0.001 | 1 | 0.95 |
Maternal age | 0.003 | 0.07 | 1 | 0.79 |
Birth order | −0.0019 | 0.03 | 1 | 0.987 |
Birth size | −0.093 | 71.41 | 1 | < 0.001 |
Global test |  | 333.84 | 20 | < 0.0001 |