Births, deaths and crude mortality rates by arm
| Baseline period | Evaluation period | |||||
| Delayed arm | Early arm | All | Delayed arm | Early arm | All | |
| Births | 5421 | 4922 | 10 343 | 19 812 | 18 926 | 38 738 |
| Livebirths | 5278 | 4826 | 10 104 | 19 382 | 18 565 | 37 947 |
| Stillbirths | 142 | 88 | 230 | 425 | 354 | 779 |
| Neonatal deaths (0–28 days) | 207 | 178 | 385 | 759 | 540 | 1299 |
| Early neonatal deaths (0–6 days) | 164 | 134 | 298 | 612 | 387 | 999 |
| Late neonatal deaths (7–28 days), N | 43 | 44 | 87 | 147 | 153 | 300 |
| Perinatal deaths | 306 | 222 | 528 | 1037 | 741 | 1778 |
| Infants with undetermined outcomes* | 1 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| Pregnancy-related deaths | 19 | 12 | 31 | 62 | 50 | 112 |
| Neonatal mortality rate per 1000 live births | 39.2 | 36.9 | 38.1 | 39.2 | 29.1 | 34.2 |
| Early neonatal mortality rate per 1000 live births | 31.1 | 27.8 | 29.5 | 31.6 | 20.8 | 26.3 |
| Late neonatal mortality rate per 1000 live births | 8.1 | 9.1 | 8.6 | 7.6 | 8.2 | 7.9 |
| Stillbirth rate per 1000 births | 26.2 | 17.9 | 22.2 | 21.4 | 18.7 | 20.1 |
| Perinatal mortality rate per 1000 births | 56.4 | 45.1 | 51.0 | 52.3 | 39.1 | 45.9 |
| Pregnancy-related mortality ratio per 100 000 live births | 360.0 | 248.6 | 306.8 | 319.9 | 269.3 | 295.1 |
*These deaths were either: (1) recorded as stillbirths but with the infant breathing or crying after birth; or (2) recorded as neonatal deaths but with no breathing or crying. We sought to minimise the risk of misclassification by reporting these infants as having an undetermined outcome and conducted sensitivity analyses to examine the effect of classifying them as either stillbirths or neonatal deaths.