Trends in Child Mortality from 1993 to 2016, Using Longitudinal Data from the South African Population Research Infrastructure Network (SAPRIN).

Ntsieni I. Itani, Statistics South Africa

The aim of this paper is to examine trends in child mortality in three rural sub-populations of South Africa, from the mid-1990s to 2016, using harmonised, longitudinal data from the South African Population Research Infrastructure Network (SAPRIN). The data come from the MRC/Wits Agincourt Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) in Mpumalanga, the Africa Health Research Institute HDSS in KwaZulu-Natal, and the DIMAMO HDSS in Limpopo Province. The analytic approach is continuous-time event history analysis using the survival-time, ‘stset’, commands in Stata. Findings show a rise and subsequent fall in each subpopulation, however the scale and timing are different.