Household Headship, Domestic Decision Making And Perinatal Mortality In Nigeria

Abstract

The study examines the relationship between household headship, domestic decision making and perinatal mortality in Nigeria. Both primary and secondary data were used. Secondary data was obtained from the 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS). This study made used of data on women of reproductive ages (15-49 years) who had experienced pregnancy loss or death of a child within the first week of birth in the last five years preceding the survey. To complement the results from the secondary source, primary data was obtained through fO in-depth interviews (!Dis) from women of child bearing age who had at least a child within the last five years. Ekiti State was purposely selected from all the state in Nigeria and Oye Local government was also purposely selected. Three levels of analysis; univariate, bivariate and multivariate was conducted. The analyses focus on loss of pregnancy and child death within the first week of birth as the dependent variable. Bivariate analyses showing associations between the outcome variable and the socio-demographic variabie were measured using Chi-square, while logistic regression was utilized to assess the independent effect between independent variables and dependent variable. The result from this study showed the perinatal level in Nigeria, 10.56% had experienced perinatal mortality in Nigeria. The socio-demographic characteristics of mothers examined against perinatal mortality showed significance relationship with p