This study tries to understand whether there is a relationship between early
age mortality and household welfare in Turkey. Data from TDHS-2008 was
used in this study. Wealth index was used to measure household welfare.
Besides descriptive analyses logistic regression method was realized to
understand the determinants of infant mortality for the 1998-2008 birth
cohort.
Although wealth index has an effect on infant mortality when no other
determinant is included in the model, the results of the logistic regression
showed that wealth index is not a determinant of infant mortality when other
factors are controlled. This implies that when other factors are equalized
wealth index does not have an effect on infant mortality.