Indicators of Under-five mortality in Khartoum state,2018

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This paper aims to construct indicators of under-five mortali- ty in Khartoum slate the capital state of Sudan,2018.

Primary data on variables of relevance to under-five mortality was collected from a random sample of households in Khartoum Sate in 2018, and analyzed by using factor analysis technique, the analysis of these data lead to nine indicators of under-five mortality in Khar- toum slate these indicators are (supervision and place of delivery, socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, mothers health and child feeding, health of pregnancy and under-five children, re- sponse of mother to the sickness of under-five children, outcome of pregnancy complication, mother habits, exclusive breastfeed- ing and delivery in others place, suffering of mother from certain disease).Study concluded that the place of delivery is important indicator of under-five mortality in Khartoum Sate.