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Abstract

The impact of maternal education on infant mortality has been evaluated from relative risks, which were estimated by a case-control study. The cases consisted of a sample of infant deaths which were registered at the Registry Office and which occurred in the Metropolitan Region of Porto Alegre (Brazil) In 1980, and the control group was a sample of births occurring in the same region in 1980, and also notified to the Registry Office. With information obtained from a special household survey, a total of 688 cases and 762 controls mene analyzed, using GLIM programs to give estimates of relative risk, and 95% confidence intervals, for maternal education and iIs association with family income, birth order and environmental factors. Specific relative risks (associated with maternal education). have also been calculated separately for 3 groups of cause-of-death and for 3 age-at-death groups.