Is there a mortality differential by marital status among women in South Africa? a study on a rural sub-district of Mpumalanga Province in the North-East South Africa
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2009-09-22T11:17:47Z
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Shoko, Mercy
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Abstract Using longitudinal data collected between 1999 and 2007, for Agincourt Demographic
Surveillance Area, the paper examines the effect of marital status and co-residence on
mortality of women who are aged between 20 and 80. The Cox Proportional Hazard
Model is used to investigate the relationship between mortality and the covariates; marital
status, co-residence, woman’s country of origin and marital duration for married women.
The number of months the husband was resident in the ADSA is used as a proxy for coresidence.
After controlling for women migration, marital status and co-residence were
significant. The divorced/separated and widowed women had a higher probability of
dying compared to the married. In addition, being married to a migrant partner increased
the woman’s probability of dying. Thus the study concludes that marital status and coresidence
affects mortality.
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married, non-married, co-residence, ADSA