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mortality and children ever born [message #16204] Sat, 24 November 2018 06:50
memon_suma@yahoo.com
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I am trying to assess the causality between fertility and infant mortality. I am using children ever born as a measure of fertility.
At first, I treated children ever born as categorical and made slabs of 1-3 children, 4-6, and 7+. But now I plan to keep the variable as it is.
For Pakistan its range is 1-16. I will use logit regression as my dependent variable is limited.
I want to ask whether children ever born is a count variable which may bias my results or it is not? Count variables start from 0 but it starts from 1. Also, can I treat it continuous or is there any other way to go about it and define a different regression?

Please help!
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