In South Africa, where adolescent drinking and early initiation of alcohol use is showing an increasing trend ( 4 ), limited research exists on adolescent and maternal socio-demographic variables as correlates for alcohol use.
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The marginally significant associations found in the multivariate analysis between the repetition of 2 years of schooling by Grade 7 and lifetime alcohol can potentially be confounded by the effect of SES and maternal education ( 28 ).
The temporal trend terms included in each multivariable model confirmed the significant increase in mortality across all age-groups over the study period both linearly and by period ( Table 3 ). Major risk factors for age-specific mortality Infants: maternal death in the infant's first year (especially due to HIV/TB), higher number of cumulative household deaths, no breastfeeding, and previous birth interval less than 1 year emerged as highly significant risk factors for all-cause infant mortality ( Table 3 ).