Monitoring Change in Child Mortality through Household Surveys.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most low- and middle-income countries lack fully functional civil registration systems. Measures of under-five mortality are typically derived from periodic household surveys collecting detailed information from women on births and child deaths. However, such surveys are expensive and are not appropriate for monitoring short-term changes in child mortality. We explored and tested the validity of two new analysis methods for less-expensive summary histories of births and child deaths for such monitoring in five African countries.

Methods and findings

The first method we explored uses individual-level survey data on births and child deaths to impute full birth histories from an earlier survey onto summary histories from a more recent survey. The second method uses c

SUBMITTER: Hill K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4659642 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature