Assessing the completeness and agreement of variables of the Information Systems on Live Births and on Mortality in Recife-PE, Brazil, 2010-2012.

OBJECTIVE to assess the information completeness and agreement on infant deaths. METHODS this was an evaluation study with descriptive design using data of the Information System on Live Births (Sinasc) and Mortality Information System (SIM) of residents in Recife-PE, Brazil, in 2010-2012; the deterministic records linkage was used to combine the data on infant deaths and live births. RESULTS of the 837 infant deaths registered on SIM, 811 (96.9%) were linked; the completeness obtained was above 95% on SIM and 98% on Sinasc; the agreement varied from 0.762 (substantial) to 0.997 (excellent) for the intraclass correlation coefficient, and it was excellent for Kappa index (>0.80). CONCLUSION Sinasc and SIM presented excellent completeness and agreement for most of the variables analyzed. The relationship between the databases is a tool that can be used by the health services of the municipalities to improve the vital statistics information systems.