[Estimating the covariates of childhood mortality from retrospective reports of mothers (author's transl)]. / Estimacion de las covariables de la mortalidad en la ninez a partir de declaraciones retrospectivas de las madres.

PIP: In this paper, the authors compared various models for estimating the covariates of childhood mortality. Specifically, we examined how much precision is lost as various pieces of information such as dates of birth and death for each child are discarded. The conclusion reached is that even incomplete mortality data of the type collected in household surveys or censuses can yield estimates which are very close to those based on the much richer wealth of data collected in detailed maternity histories. 2 substantive conclusions of interest are that in the 2 countries (Sri Lanka and Korea) which were examined, education of the father has a significant and pronounced effect on childhood mortality even when mother's education is controlled, and once other covariates are controlled, there is no difference between urban and rural childhood mortality. (author's modified)^ieng