Table 2: Descriptive distribution of observed counts, total births, expected counts, relative frequency of under- five deaths by state based on the 2013 Nigeria DHS (arranged in alphabetical order).

State	Observed Deaths(O)	Expected Count(E)	Relative Frequency	SMR	Total Birth(N)
Abia	39	46.57	1.35	0.425	508
Adamawa	100	91.76	3.47	1.894	1001
Akwa Ibom	43	52.80	1.49	0.873	576
Anambra	46	49.23	1.59	0.349	537
Bauchi	180	131.92	6.24	2.392	1439
Bayelsa	58	75.26	2.01	0.959	821
Benue	61	60.50	2.11	1.109	660
Borno	28	55.00	0.97	0.581	600
Cross river	36	48.22	1.25	0.567	526
Delta	46	63.44	1.59	0.697	692
Ebonyi	92	66.00	3.19	1.687	720
Edo	27	54.55	0.94	0.556	595
Ekiti	33	48.59	1.14	0.627	530
Enugu	46	52.62	1.59	1.002	574
FCT-Abuja	28	45.93	0.97	0.264	501
Gombe	126	105.88	4.37	2.882	1155
Imo	40	43.73	1.39	0.304	477
Jigawa	194	131.64	6.72	2.413	1436
Kaduna	51	80.40	1.77	0.258	877
Kano	221	197.83	7.66	1.655	2158
Katsina	136	133.57	4.71	1.241	1457
Kebbi	152	109.55	5.27	3.391	1195
Kogi	27	44.83	0.94	0.431	489
Kwara	46	62.61	1.59	0.529	683
Lagos	64	87.00	2.22	1.066	949
Nasarawa	58	60.05	2.01	0.662	655
Niger	57	87.64	1.98	1.160	956
Ogun	37	49.14	1.28	0.623	536
Ondo	48	59.40	1.66	0.938	648
Osun	21	51.15	0.73	0.347	558
Oyo	36	60.60	1.25	0.586	661
Plateau	51	61.42	1.77	1.036	670
Rivers	39	49.23	1.35	0.313	537
Sokoto	163	124.77	5.65	1.427	1361
Taraba	123	114.22	4.26	1.247	1246
Yobe	104	98.64	3.60	0.798	1076
Zamfara	229	130.36	7.93	0.079	1422