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[© 2014-2019 Ibadan Journal of Sociology]82is higher than those who had no formal education, the availability of the
facilities in their respective locations could be a factor of concern.
Nonetheless, at least 3 out of 5 urban poor who had attained secondary
education and above used non-solid fuel as type of cooking fuel, while a
large proportion of those with none (52.6%) used solid fuel or biomass for
cooking. The wide disparity between the proportions in the use of toilet
facilities and cooking fuel could be explained by the fact that while the use
of toilet could be seen as involuntary call of the nature for every human
being, cooking requires much more preparation than the use of toilet.Direct estimate of U5MR among urban poor in NigeriaFigure 1 shows that the direct estimate of U5MR among urban poor who
had no formal education (103 per 1000 per live births) is higher than the
overall rate of 85 per 1000 live births. This is indicative that the role of
education in child survivability among urban poor seems to be important at
reducing the chances of child mortality especially among those with
secondary education and above whose rate of U5M is 64 per 1000 live
births. In other words, while this cohort seems to experience lower rate of
U5M, those without formal education and primary education experienced
higher rate of child mortality among urban poor.Figure 1: Direct estimate of U5MR by education among urban poor in
Nigeria
Table 3 further reveals U5MR by maternal education according to
geopolitical regions in the country. Those who had no formal education in
the North East (333 per 1000 live births) had the highest rate of U5M,
followed by those in the North Central (155 per 1000 live births) and North
West (111 per 100 live births) Nigeria. While it could be observed that those
with primary and secondary education or above experienced lower rates of8510374
64ALL No formal education Primary education Secondary educationDirect estimate of under-five mortality rate (per1,000 live births) among
urban poor by maternal education in Nigeria