Modeling Asia's Child Mortality Rate: A Thinking of Human Development in Asia

AbstractMultiple linear regression model was employed to model child under age of five mortality rate and related factors in Asia of year 2010. Data analysis was carried out to find factors which influence the child mortality in Asia. Correlation analysis was done to check on the relationship among all the variables, as well as to identify the problem of multicollinearity in the data. Having fitted multiple linear regression, it was found that mortality rate of children under age of five in Asia countries are significantly influenced by percentage of case detection for all forms of tuberculosis, number of reported deaths on measles, number of population using an improved drinking water source, and number of birth trauma reported. Among those variable, it was identified that number of population using an improved drinking water source is the most important factor