Fig 1.
Direct acyclic graph used to select controlling variables to study the relationship of the short birth interval with neonatal, infant and under-five mortality.
Note: CEB, children ever born, Nm, neonatal mortality, IM, infant mortality, and U5M, under-five mortality.
Table 1.
Key information about the study participants, exposure, and outcome variables.
Table 2.
Neonatal, infant and under-five mortality rates by background characteristics, BDHS 2017/18.
Fig 2.
Balance of propensity scores (PS) before and after weighting across treatment and comparison groups.
Table 3.
Covariates PS balance before and after weighting.
Table 4.
The effect of short birth interval on neonatal, infant and under-five mortality in Bangladesh, BDHS 2017/18.