Frenzen P D, Hogan D P
Demography. 1982 Aug;19(3):391-408.
Demographic and social factors affecting infant mortality in rural northern Thailand are examined using log-linear modified multiple regression models and data drawn from a representative sample of married couples in Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai provinces. Demographic factors do not account for the effects of variations in parental ability or willingness to provide adequate infant care. The final model estimated incorporated both these social dimensions of child care. Parental ability, measured by father's social class, mother's health information, and local community development levels, continued to have significant independent effects upon infant survival. Parental willingness, measured by parent's beliefs about intergenerational wealth transfers, no longer had a significant effect net of other social variables, but infant survival was still affected by whether both parents wanted a birth.
利用对数线性修正多元回归模型以及从清迈府和清莱府已婚夫妇代表性样本中获取的数据，对影响泰国北部农村地区婴儿死亡率的人口和社会因素进行了研究。人口因素无法解释父母提供充分婴儿照料的能力或意愿差异所产生的影响。最终估计的模型纳入了儿童照料的这两个社会层面。以父亲的社会阶层、母亲的健康信息以及当地社区发展水平衡量的父母能力，继续对婴儿存活情况产生显著的独立影响。以父母对代际财富转移的信念衡量的父母意愿，在扣除其他社会变量后不再具有显著影响，但婴儿存活情况仍受父母双方是否想要生育这一因素的影响。
