Misreporting of Pregnancy-Related Deaths in Siblings’ Survival Histories: A Validation Study in Niakhar, Senegal
(2015) Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America — Location: San Diego, USA (30.April.2015)
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- Estimates of maternal mortality in countries with limited vital registration increasingly rely on data from siblings’ survival histories (SSH). These data are collected during retrospective household-based surveys such as the DHS. Demographers have expressed concern that such data may underestimate the proportion of deaths due to maternal causes. We conducted a validation study of SSH in Niakhar (Senegal), a locality where prospective data on adult mortality has been collected during demographic surveillance since 1962. We found that SSH collected using the DHS questionnaire were affected by a significant number of omissions of non-PR deaths, as well as misclassifications. SSH data collected with the DHS questionnaire thus significantly overestimated the proportion of deaths due to pregnancy-related causes. On the other hand, a modified SSH questionnaire (which incorporated recall cues and an event history calendar) yielded unbiased estimates in most settings where more than 10% of deaths are due to pregnancy-related causes.
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Helleringer, S., Pison, G., Masquelier, B., & et al. (2015). Misreporting of Pregnancy-Related Deaths in Siblings’ Survival Histories: A Validation Study in Niakhar, Senegal. Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, San Diego, USA. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/212482