Estimating the completeness of under-5 death registration in Egypt

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ID10968639
AutoresStan Becker (0000-0002-3251-9152, Department of Population Dynamics, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205-2179, autor correspondente), Youssef Waheeb (Suez Canal University), Bothaina El-Deeb (Child and Women Research Division, Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS)), Nagwa Khallaf (ARI Division, Child Survival Project, Ministry of Health), Robert Black (Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore), Robert E Black (0000-0001-9926-7984, Johns Hopkins University)
Ano1996
Volume33
Fascículo3
Páginas329-339
Data de publicação1996-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDemography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2061765
OpenAlexW4299848984
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas6

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 included questions regarding notification of the death at the local health bureau. If the family said the death had been notified, separate employees searched the health bureau records for the registration. Overall 57% of infant deaths were reported as notified and 68% of those death reports were found; the corresponding figuresfor child deaths were 89% and 74%. Using the percentage reported as notified as an estimate for completeness of registration, we adjusted upward the national infant and child mortality rates from registration data, giving values of 73 per 1,000 for infant mortality and 99 for 5q0 for the period 1987–1990. These values are approximately 20% above the corresponding direct estimates from the PAPCHILD and EDHS surveys

Cause of death · Child mortality · Completeness (order theory · Disease · Environmental health · Infant mortality · Mortality rate · Population · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma