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Validity and completeness of death reporting and registration in a rural district of Vietnam

Vietnam-Sweden Uong Bi General Hospital, Uong Bi, Vietnam, huyub{at}yahoo.com, Nordic School of Public Health, Göteborg, Sweden

Nguyen Hoang Long

Health Policy Unit, Ministry of Health, Hanoi, Vietnam

Dinh Phuong Hoa

National Institute for Protection of Child Health, Hanoi, Vietnam

Peter Byass

UmeÅ International School of Public Health, UmeÅ University, UmeÅ, Sweden

Bo Eriksson

Nordic School of Public Health, Göteborg, Sweden

Aims: Assessment was made of the validity of mortality estimates based on data collected during 1999 - 2000 by quarterly follow-up visits and compared with other methods (re-census, communal death registration, and neighbourhood survey). Methods: This study was carried out within a longitudinal epidemiological laboratory in Bavi District, Vietnam (called FilaBavi), covering a sample of 11,089 households with 51,024 inhabitants. Deaths within FilaBavi during 1999 - 2000 were collected by four methods and compared: quarterly household follow-ups, the re-census carried out in 2001, the Commune Population Registration System (CPRS), and a neighbourhood survey. Results: Within these four methods, a total of 471 deaths were detected in the FilaBavi sample. Quarterly household follow-ups detected 470 deaths (99.8%). The re-census missed 19 deaths, of which eight were infants, and two-thirds of the missed deaths fell in 1999. The CPRS missed 89 cases (19%), the majority being infant and elderly deaths. The neighbourhood survey over-reported deaths. Conclusions: Quarterly follow-ups were the best method for death registration. The re-census approach was less complete, with problems of recall bias. The completeness and quality of death registration by CPRS was low, especially for infant and elderly mortality.

Key Words: census • death registration • demography • household survey • mortality • validity • Vietnam.

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Vol. 31, No. 6 suppl, 12-18 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/140349480303100603


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