Estimating the completeness of under-5 death registration in Egypt

Estimating the completeness of under-5 death registration in Egypt.

To evaluate the completeness of registration of infant and child deaths in Egypt, reinterviews were conducted with families who had reported a death of a child under age 5 in the five years before the survey for two national surveys recently conducted in Egypt: the United Nations PAPCHILD survey of 1990-1991 and the Egyptian Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS) of 1992. The survey instrument in...

Estimating the completeness of death registration.

Summary Death registration statistics, even when incomplete, can provide valuable information about mortality. In particular, the age structure of deaths can be used to estimate the completeness of registration, provided that this completeness does not vary substantially with age. Two methods of estimating the completeness of death registration from the distribution of deaths by age are des...

Estimating census and death registration completeness.

This article presents a new method for estimating the relative completeness of 2 census enumerations and of intercensal registered deaths. The Growth Balance Equation was developed by Brass (1975) to estimate the completeness of death registration relative to the completeness of census enumeration. The method presented here can be seen either as an extension of Martin's formulation to allow e...

Viii. Use of Direct and Indirect Techniques for Estimating the Completeness of Death Registration Systems

This chapter reviews briefly the direct and indirect means of estimating the completeness with which deaths are recorded in a civil registration system. In accordance with the instructions of the organizers of the Meeting, it was designed as an adjunct to the paper presented by Moriyama,' on continuous registration systems. It should be noted that the methods can be used with little modificatio...

Testing death registration completeness in a group of premature infants.