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<p><u><strong>Short Name</strong></u><br>
Completeness of death registration <br></p>
<p><u><strong>Full Name</strong></u><br>
Proportion of countries that have achieved 75% death registration<br></p>
<p><u><strong>Domain</strong></u><br>
Statistical capacity<br></p>
<p><u><strong>Sub-domain</strong></u><br>
Statistical Capacity<br></p>
<p><u><strong>Tags</strong></u><br>
SDG Target 17.19, Strategic Plan<br></p>
<p><u><strong>Definition</strong></u><br>
Countries with death registration data that are at least 75 percent complete<br></p>
<p><u><strong>Method of Calculation</strong></u><br>
The proportion and number of countries that have achieved 75 per cent death registration. According to the Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Revision 3 (<a href="https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/standmeth/principles/M19Rev3en.pdf">Link</a>) a complete civil registration is defined as: “The registration in the civil registration system of every vital event that has occurred to the members of the population of a particular country (or area), within a specified period as a result of which every such event has a vital registration record and the system has attained 100 per cent coverage.” There exist several methods for the evaluation of completeness of birth or death registration systems. An elaboration of these methods is available at Principles and Recommendations for a Vital Statistics System, Revision 3. The evaluation and monitoring of quality and completeness of birth and death registration systems are addressed in Part three, sub-Chapters: D. Quality assessment methods; E. Direct versus indirect assessment, and F. Choosing appropriate methods for assessing completeness and qualitative accuracy of registration and register-based vital statistics (para 579 to 622).<br></p>
<p><u><strong>Expected Frequency of Data Dissemination</strong></u><br>
Annual<br></p>
<p><u><strong>Geospatial Dimension Availability</strong></u><br>
Country (geolev0), Landlocked developing countries (LLDCs), Least Developed Countries (LDCs), SDG Regions, SDG Sub-Regions, Small island developing States (SIDS), World<br></p>
<p><u><strong>Time Dimension Availability</strong></u><br>
2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020<br></p>
<p><u><strong>Disaggregation Dimension Availability</strong></u><br>
<em>Totals only</em><br></p>
<p><u><strong>References</strong></u><br>
SDG Indicator 17.9.2b metadata: <a href="https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-17-19-02b.pdf">Link</a><br></p>
<p><u><strong>Comments</strong></u><br>
At the present time, the thresholds used for compiling the data for the indicator 17.19.02b are 90 per cent for birth registration and 75 per cent for death registration, due to the classification that has been used in the Demographic Yearbook metadata questionnaire on vital statistics.<br></p> |