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CAMBODIA DEMOGRAPHIC AND HEALTH SURVEY 2005 (CDHS 2005)

Table: High- risk fertility behavior

                                                                                    Percent distribution of children born in the five years preceding the survey by category of elevated risk of
                                                                                    mortality and the risk ratio, and percent distribution of currently married women by category of risk if they
                                                                                    were to conceive a child at the time of the survey, Cambodia 2005

Risk category	Births in the 5 years Preceding the survey		Percentage of currently married women assigned to the risk category1
	Percentage of births	Risk ratio
Not in any high-risk category	29.0	1.00	19.8a
Unavoidable risk category
First-order births   between ages 18 and 34	24.3	1.12	5.8
Single high-risk category
Mother's age<18	2.7	1.55	0.3
Mother's age>34	3.0	2.19	6.7
Birth interval<24 months	7.2	1.82	9.4
Birth order > 3	15.0	1.32	10.5
Subtotal	27.9	1.56	26.9
Multiple high-risk category
Age<18 and birth   interval<24 months2	0.2	*	0.1
Age<34 and birth   interval<24 months	0.4	(3.70)	0.4
Age<34 and birth   order<3	12.8	1.61	38.2
Age<18 and birth   interval<24 months and   birth order >3	2.0	3.79	3.6
Birth interval<24 months   and birth order >3	3.4	3.16	5.2
Subtotal	18.7	2.16	47.4
In any avoidable high-risk category	46.6	1.80	74.3
Total	100.0	na	100.0
Number of births	7,789	na	10,087

                                                                                  Note: Risk ratio is the ratio of the proportion dead among births in a specific high-risk category to
                                                                                  the proportion dead among births not in any high risk category. Figures in parentheses are based on
                                                                                  25-49 unweighted cases. An asterisk indicates that a figure is based on fewer than 25 unweighted cases
                                                                                  and has been suppressed.
                                                                                  na = Not applicable
                                                                                                                           ¹   Women are assigned to risk categories according to the status they would have the birth of a child if
                                                                                  they were to conceive at time of the survey: current age less than 17 years and 3 months or order than
                                                                                  34 years and 2 months, latest birth less than 15 months ago, or latest birth being of order 3 or higher.
                                                                                                                           ²   Includes the category age <18 and birth order>3
                                                                                                                           ^a   includes sterilized women