Measuring the completeness of death registration in 2844 Chinese counties in 2018

Table 2 Completeness of death registration in Anji, Yunhe, and Longyou Counties of Zhejiang province: sensitivity analysis based on different data sources of 5q0 and population structure

	Anji County	Yunhe County	Longyou County
Registered deaths from the CDRS	3213	837	2776
5q0 from the GBD study (1/1000)	5.5	6.7	7.5
5q0 from the county (1/1000)	5.9	7.5	8.2
Population from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)	484,902	114,700	370,799
% 65 years old and over from the NBS (%)	13.1	12.9	15.4
Population from the county	477,337	113,954	385,879
% 65 years old and over from the county (%)	14.3	13.3	15.9
Death registration completeness (%)^a, under 5 years	42.1	12.2	70.1
Death registration completeness (%)^a, all ages	89.9	82.8	91.8
Death registration completeness (%)^b, under 5 years	40.6	11.4	67.9
Death registration completeness (%)^b, all ages	88.2	81.7	88.9

^aDeath registration completeness was estimated using the 5q0 of the GBD and population from the NBS
^bDeath registration completeness was estimated using the 5q0 and population from the counties

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