longitudinal cohort analyses based on the indepth network of demographic and health surveillance sites wwwindepthnetworkorg show an association between socioeconomic status and underfive mortality mwageni and others but this association does not hold when other factors are taken into consideration debpuur and others the country data are from the most recent dhs surveys conducted in and are weighted by the population size of each ofthe countries in a multivariate regression figure presents the measured effect of household wealth on child mortality ages years or months for the three regions included in the analysis the net relative risk of dying before reaching the fifth birthday for a child born in africa from the richest household is per cent that for a child from the poorest household in the region in contrast the net relative risk of dying of a child born in asia from the richest household is only per cent that for a child from the poorest household