Statistical Analysis of Under-Five Mortality, Ho Municipal Hospital as a Case Study
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Salifu Katara, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University for Development Studies, Navrongo, Ghana.
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Alhassan Faisal, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University for Development Studies, Navrongo, Ghana.
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Abukari Alhassan, Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University for Development Studies, Navrongo, Ghana.
Childhood (under-five) mortality is the death of a child before the Child’s fifth birthday. The main objective of the study was to conduct a time series on the under-five mortality in the Ho municipal Hospital in the Volta region of Ghana for the period 2008-2013 with specific objectives of; identifying death differentials by sex, analyzing death differentials by years, determining the cause of deaths by sex. Descriptive analysis showed a total of 204 deaths for the period 2008-2013 with 109(53.43%) male and 95(46.57%) female under-five deaths respectively. The KPSS and ADF test confirm that the mortality series was stationary for the period. The paired sampled test also reveals that there exists no difference in the average mortality for both male and female under-five mortality in the hospital.
Mortality, Infant Mortality, Time Series, ARIMA, Forecasting, Stationarity
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