Infant mortality among native-born children of immigrants in France, 2008-17: results from a socio-demographic panel survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Within Europe, France stands out as a major country that lacks recent and reliable evidence on how infant mortality levels vary among the native-born children of immigrants compared with the native-born children of two parents born in France.

Methods

We used a nationally representative socio-demographic panel consisting of 296 400 births and 980 infant deaths for the period 2008-17. Children of immigrants were defined as being born to at least one parent born abroad and their infant mortality was compared with that of children born to two parents born in France. We first calculated infant mortality rates per 1000 live births. Then, using multi-level logit models, we calculated odds ratios of infant mortality in a series of models adjusting progressively for parent

SUBMITTER: Wallace M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8071600 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature