Abbreviated Name:
Deaths registration coverage
Indicator Name:
Deaths registration coverage
Domain:
Health System Response/ Health Information system
Related Terms:
Civil registration system
Definition:
Estimated level of coverage of death registration
Measurment Method:
Several sources are used to obtain the coverage of birth and death registration for more than 230 countries and areas. The primary source is the "Quality of vital statistics obtained from civil registration" page on the United Nations Demographic Yearbook Vital Statistics Questionnaire. Source of information also includes United Nations Statistics Division workshops that have been conducted in the past, when covearge information was obtained from country representative(s) either from the National Statistical Office or the Civil Registration Authority attending the workshop. When information is not available from these two sources, coverage information estimated by the International Institute for Vital Registration and Statistics (IIVRS), UNICEF (Multiple Indicators Cluster Survey), ICF Macro (Demographic and Health Survey) and/or the World Health Organisation is then used.
Numerator:
Number of deaths registered
Denominator
Total number of deaths
Estimation method:
WHO estimates coverage by dividing the total number of deaths that have been registered with cause-of-death information in the vital registration system for a country-year by the total estimated deaths for that year for the national population
Disaggregation:
Gender, location (urban / rural), wealth quintile, boundaries: administrative and health regions
Primary data sources:
Civil registration or sample registration system
Alternate data sources:
Civil registration and vital statistics systems
Measurment frequency:
Annual
