Table 4 Adjusted hazard ratios and 95 % confidence intervals from Cox regression for the association between maternal birthplace and postneonatal mortality, net of covariates, for all infants and stratified by infant sex: Canada (excluding Ontario), 1990–2005

 Canada

1.00

1.00

1.00

 US

0.98 (0.77, 1.26)

1.11 (0.82, 1.51)

0.80 (0.53, 1.22)

 North Africa

1.02 (0.62, 1.67)

1.01 (0.53, 1.96)

1.03 (0.49, 2.18)

 Sub-Saharan Africa

1.21 (0.88, 1.68)

0.98 (0.61, 1.58)

1.53 (0.98, 2.37)

 Haiti

1.41 (1.02, 1.97)

1.45 (0.94, 2.24)

1.36 (0.82, 2.27)

 Non-Spanish Caribbean

1.09 (0.69, 1.71)

1.40 (0.83, 2.38)

0.67 (0.28, 1.60)

 Latin America

0.57 (0.40, 0.80)

0.54 (0.34, 0.85)

0.61 (0.36, 1.01)

 Pakistan

2.67 (1.77, 4.02)

2.46 (1.39, 4.34)

2.95 (1.63, 5.35)

 South Asia

0.82 (0.64, 1.06)

0.81 (0.58, 1.12)

0.85 (0.57, 1.25)

 Central/West Asia

1.17 (0.87, 1.57)

1.09 (0.72, 1.64)

1.27 (0.82, 1.96)

 East/Southeast Asia

0.90 (0.76, 1.06)

0.97 (0.78, 1.19)

0.81 (0.61, 1.06)

 Europe

0.83 (0.69, 0.99)

0.68 (0.53, 0.89)

1.03 (0.80, 1.33)

 Rest of the World

0.70 (0.37, 1.30)

0.59 (0.25, 1.43)

0.85 (0.35, 2.04)

Number of observations

3,361,988

1,724,539

1,637,449