BACKGROUND
Better maternal education has been credited with making a major contribution to infant mortality decline. Most of the evidence is based on cross-sectional analyses, which show a strong correlation between maternal education and infant mortality. However, cross-sectional analyses do not provide an estimate of the contribution of maternal education to infant mortality decline.

OBJECTIVE
The major objective is to obtain a more accurate estimate of the contribution of maternal education to infant mortality decline.

METHODS
Pooling data from all available phases of the Demographic and Health Survey, this article presents a longitudinal, individual-level analysis of the determinants of trends in infant mortality in Indonesia.

RESULTS
Better maternal education explains 15% of the infant mortality decline in Indonesia from 1980 to 2015.



中文翻译：

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孕产妇教育和婴儿死亡率下降：来自印度尼西亚的证据，1980-2015（Jona Schellekens）

背景
更好的孕产妇教育被认为对降低婴儿死亡率做出了重大贡献。大多数证据基于横断面分析，表明孕产妇教育与婴儿死亡率之间存在很强的相关性。然而，横断面分析并未估计孕产妇教育对婴儿死亡率下降的贡献。

目标
主要目标是更准确地估计孕产妇教育对婴儿死亡率下降的贡献。

方法
汇集来自人口与健康调查所有可用阶段的数据，本文对印度尼西亚婴儿死亡率趋势的决定因素进行了纵向、个体层面的分析。

结果
从 1980 年到 2015 年，印度尼西亚的婴儿死亡率下降了 15%，其中更好的孕产妇教育解释了这一点。