INFANT MORTALITY RATE

The Relationship between Infant Mortality, Income and Public Expenditures in Sri Lanka from 1951 to 1981



The Relationship between Infant Mortality, Income and Public Expenditures in Sri Lanka from 1951 to 1981

Introduction

The purpose of this paper is to find out the relationship between infant mortality and the GDP, education and health expenditure per capita in Sri Lanka. The study consist of the data set that covers a period of 31 years i.e. 1951-1981, The infant mortality rate is a demographic indicator that shows the number of deaths of children in a population of one thousand live births registered during the first year of his life. Although the infant mortality rate is measured on children under 1 year, also sometimes measured in children younger than 5 years. This indicator is directly related to levels of poverty and free health care quality (higher poverty or lower quality care, higher infant mortality rate) and is the subject of one of the 8 Millennium Development Goals of United Nations.

There are several reasons why primary care professionals should know the fundamentals of epidemiology and statistics as tools for everyday work. Once you have collected the values ??taken by the variables in our study (data), proceed to the descriptive analysis of them. For categorical variables such as sex or the staging, we want to know the number of cases in each of the categories, usually reflecting the percentage they represent of the total, and expressing it in a frequency table.

Description of the data, using summary statistics and graphical techniques

Descriptive statistics is a big part of the statistic that is dedicated to analyze and represent data. This analysis is very basic. Although there is a tendency to generalize the entire population, the first conclusions reached after a descriptive analysis is a study by calculating a series of measures of central tendency, to see to what extent the data is grouped or scattered around a central value.

The table below shows the descriptive statistics for the data set, it has been defined earlier that data set has been collected from the year 1951-1981, furthermore, it can be seen that the average IMR of Sri Lanka for the defined period is 53.76. The maximum IMR is found to be in the year 1951 and minimum 30 is for the year 1981. The average Gross domestic is 742.13, while it was lowest i.e. 617.59 in 1951 and highest i.e. 1034.60 in the year 1981. Similarly, the average education rate per capita is found to be 26.638, while it was lowest in the year 1951 and highest for the year 1970. The average Health expenditure per capita of Sri Lanka is found to be 13.7055 Rupees; however it was highest in the year 1979.

Descriptive Statistics

N

Minimum

Maximum

Mean

Std. Deviation

IMR

31

30

82

53.76

12.847

GDPPC

31

617.59

1034.60

7.4213E2

123.37831

EDUCPC

31

14.60

35.53

26.6387

6.33511

HEXPPC

31

8.80

16.54

13.7055

2.01499

Valid N (listwise)

31

The trend in the graph below clearly shows that IMR for Sri Lanka is falling down by the passage of time, as it can be seen that it was highest in 1951 and lowest in 1981, this tells us that Sri ...