Child Mortality and Injury in Asia: Survey methods

Michael (et al.) Linnan

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Abstract: Special Series on Child Injury no.2 This paper presents a more detailed description of the survey methodology for technical specialists interested in understanding the major differences between the surveys and the methods previously used to estimate child deaths. A detailed description is provided for survey governance, sampling design, survey instruments, the classification scheme for mortality and morbidity measured in the surveys, the fieldwork procedure, the analytic framework, weighting and adjustments, and survey costs. Following this, a number of methodological lessons are addressed, such as: the need to count all children and not only those under five years of age; the need to count all clearly identifiable causes of death in those same groups; the need to count morbidity as well as mortality; and the need to count the deaths in the community where they occur to avoid the various biases associated with facility-based counting. A number of examples from the surveys are shown to illuminate the issues so that they are clear to non-technical readers.

Keywords: child health; child mortality; demographic change; developing countries; disabilities; infant mortality; morbidity; right to health and health services; under five mortality rate; South East Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43
Date: 2007
Note: Special Series on Child Injury, issue no. 2
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