| Number of under-five deaths [message #21588] |
Mon, 23 November 2020 08:56  |
calupsita
Messages: 2
Registered: November 2020
|
Member |
|
|
Dear all,
I am estimating under-five mortality rates based on small age segments (0, 1-2, 3-5, 6-11, 12-23, 24-35, 36-47, 48-59 months), following the DHS guideines, which results in probabilities of death.
I wonder if it is possible (or if it is correct) to estimate the absolute number of under-five deaths/ children at risk based on these age groups and what would be the best approach for this.
Thank you!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Re: Number of under-five deaths [message #21612 is a reply to message #21608] |
Wed, 25 November 2020 10:31  |
Bridgette-DHS
Messages: 3214
Registered: February 2013
|
Senior Member |
|
|
Following is a response from DHS Research & Data Analysis Director, Tom Pullum:
This is not so easy. The complication is that the birth histories give age at death, not cmc of death. Say a child was born in month A and died at age B months. That means the child could have died in month A+B-1 or month A+B. The DHS procedure is to assign half of the death to each of these two months, and to assign half a unit of risk to each of these two months. Sometimes it happens that month A+B is in one time interval and month A+B+1 is in the next time interval.
The number of children at risk of dying at age 0-4 in the past five years will be the number of children born 0-9 years ago minus the number who died 5-9 years ago. All remaining children had some exposure to age 0-4 in the past five years.
The number of deaths at age 0-4 in the past five years will be the number of children born in the past ten years who died at age 0-4 (b7<60) in the past five years.
You can go into the under-five mortality program and try to identify and pull out the relevant numbers or you can construct a tabulation of cmc of birth (b3) and months of age at death (b7) and figure it out.
|
|
|
|
The DHS Program User Forum
Members
Search
Help
Register
Login
Home
