Table 1.

 World health survey characteristics (number of households, number of siblings), number of deaths captured (for all causes and war, with percentage missing information on year of death), and percentage of deaths missing information regarding cause

	Survey characteristics			Sibling deaths, all causes				Sibling deaths, war			Missing cause of death (%)
	Households	Siblings		Total	Year of death			Total	Year of death
					Reported	Missing (%)			Reported	Missing (%)
Bangladesh	5515	36 627		8850	7810	12		21	20	5	14
Bosnia	1028	4095		619	603	3		111	105	5	2
Burma	5848	29 179		3547	3531	0		15	15	0	1
Ethiopia	4731	27 819		4689	3290	30		80	70	13	20
Georgia	2394	6419		1142	1098	4		38	38	0	13
Guatemala	4473	27 115		4653	2883	38		31	21	32	34
Laos	4659	24 503		2499	2214	11		59	51	14	5
Namibia	3768	20 500		2199	1362	38		62	33	47	27
Philippines	9327	60 138		5630	2855	49		26	16	38	7
Republic of Congo	1678	8548		844	563	33		18	18	0	60
Sri Lanka	6650	32 369		2588	1922	26		99	83	16	27
Vietnam	4092	21 583		2131	2080	2		290	289	0	14
Zimbabwe	3965	25 224		4483	2707	40		67	44	34	19
Total	58 128	324 119		43 874	32 918	25*		917	803	12*	17*

*Mean weighted by number of siblings captured in survey.