Does dropout from school matter in taking antenatal care visits among women in Bangladesh? An application of marginalized poisson-poisson mixture model

There exists a lack of research in explaining the link between dropout from school and antenatal care (ANC) visits of women during pregnancy in Bangladesh. The aim of this study is to investigate how the drop out from school influences the ANC visits after controlling the relevant covariates using an appropriate count regression model. The association between the explanatory variables and the outcome of interest, ANC visits, have been performed using one-way analysis of variance/independent sample t-test. To examine the adjusted effects of covariates on the marginal mean of count data, Marginalized Poison-Poisson mixture regression model has been fitted. The estimated incidence rate of antenatal care visits was 10.6% lower for the mothers who were not continued their education after marriage but had at least 10 years of schooling (p-value