Assessment of the national and subnational completeness of death registration in Nepal.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Reliable and timely mortality data from a civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system are of crucial importance for generating evidence for policy and monitoring the progress towards national and global development goals. In Nepal, however, the death registration system is not used to produce mortality statistics, because it does not providing data on age at death and only reporting deaths by year of registration. This study assesses the completeness of death registration in Nepal - both the existing offline system and the newer online system - as well as the completeness of death reporting from a CRVS Survey, and assesses differences by year, sex, ecological belt, and province.

Methods

The empirical completeness method is used to estimate completeness a

SUBMITTER: Pandey SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8895765 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature