Estimating the completeness of death registration: An empirical method.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Many national and subnational governments need to routinely measure the completeness of death registration for monitoring and statistical purposes. Existing methods, such as death distribution and capture-recapture methods, have a number of limitations such as inaccuracy and complexity that prevent widespread application. This paper presents a novel empirical method to estimate completeness of death registration at the national and subnational level.

Methods

Random-effects models to predict the logit of death registration completeness were developed from 2,451 country-years in 110 countries from 1970-2015 using the Global Burden of Disease 2015 database. Predictors include the registered crude death rate, under-five mortality rate, population age structure and u

SUBMITTER: Adair T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5976169 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature