You can select the variable for which you want to see correlation with infant mortality rate, from the dropdown menu.

If p-value for a variable is less than 0.05, then that variable has significant correlation with IMR.

It is found that the following factors have significant correlation with IMR

Factors with a significant correlation

  1. Mothers who didn’t have atleast 4 Antenatal Care Visits (%) (+ve correlation)
  2. Kutchha Houses (%) (+ve correlation)
  3. Households with no electricity (%) (+ve correlation)
  4. Households using solid fuel (%) (+ve correlation)
  5. Mothers who did not consume iron folic acid for 180 days while pregnant (%) (+ve correlation)
  6. Anaemic women aged 15-49 (%) (+ve correlation)
  7. Children aged 6 to 59 months who are stunted or underweight (%) (+ve correlation)
  8. Households without a member who completed 6 years of schooling (%) (+ve correlation)
  9. Children aged 9-35 months who did not receive Vitamin A dose (%) (+ve correlation)

Relevant Factors without a significant correlation

  1. Households with no sanitation facilities (%)
  2. Children who should be breastfed within 1 hour of Birth
  3. Received health insurance (%)
  4. Children Low birth weight (%)
  5. Per capita income (at constant prices)
  6. Number of Asha Workers per 1000 population
  7. Number of Chief Health Officers per 1000 population
  8. Households which do not own more than one asset (radio, TV, telephone, computer, animal cart, bicycle, motocycle etc) (%)
  9. Gap in number of PHC
  10. Gap in number of CHC
  11. Children who did not receive postnatal care from a doctor/nurse/LHV/ANM/mid wife/other health personnel within 2 days of delivery
  12. Women aged 15-49 years whose body mass index (BMI) is below normal (BMI <18.5 Kg/meter squared)
  13. Women aged 20-24 married under 18
  14. Households with no safe drinking water (%)
  15. Prevalence of Diarrhoea under 5 years of age (%)
  16. Children aged 6-23 months who should receive adequate diet
  17. Multidimensional Poverty Index
  18. Gap in number of PHC Doctor
  19. Gap in number of CHC Doctor
  20. Births to be attended by skilled health personnel