Table 1.

Vital statistics performance dimensions and indicators used to measure them

VS performance dimension	Indicator used	Formula
Quality of cause of death reporting	Garbage coding	$\frac{\mathit{Deaths}\mathit{Coded}\mathit{to}\mathit{Garbage}\mathit{Type}{1}_{\mathit{cy}}+\left(0.5\ast \mathit{Deaths}\mathit{Coded}\mathit{to}\mathit{Garbage}\mathit{Type}{2}_{\mathit{cy}}\right)}{\mathit{All}\mathit{Death}{\mathit{s}}_{\mathit{cy}}}$
Quality of age and sex reporting	Age or sex unspecified	$\frac{\mathit{Deaths}\mathit{with}\mathit{Either}\mathit{Unspecified}\mathit{Age}\mathit{or}\mathit{Se}{\mathit{x}}_{\mathit{cy}}}{\mathit{All}\mathit{Death}{\mathit{s}}_{\mathit{cy}}}$
Internal consistency	Medically impossible diagnoses	$\frac{\mathit{Deaths}\mathit{Considered}\mathit{Medically}\mathit{Impossible}\mathit{Given}\mathit{the}\mathit{Age}\mathit{or}\mathit{Sex}\mathit{of}\mathit{Deceden}{\mathit{t}}_{\mathit{cy}}}{\mathit{All}\mathit{Death}{\mathit{s}}_{\mathit{cy}}}$
Completeness of death reporting	Completeness	$\frac{\mathit{Deaths}\mathit{Enumerated}\mathit{by}\mathit{VS}\mathit{Syste}{\mathit{m}}_{\mathit{cy}}}{\mathit{Expected}\mathit{Number}\mathit{of}\mathit{Death}{\mathit{s}}_{\mathit{cy}}}$
Level of cause-specific detail	Length of cause list	$\frac{\mathit{Number}\mathit{of}\mathit{Distinct}\mathit{Causes}\mathit{of}\mathit{Death}\mathit{Reported}\mathit{by}\mathit{VS}\mathit{Dat}{\mathit{a}}_{\mathit{cy}}}{\mathit{Number}\mathit{of}\mathit{Distinct}\mathit{Causes}\mathit{of}\mathit{Death}\mathit{Reported}\mathit{by}\mathit{GBD}}$
Availability of timely VS data	NA	Exponential smoothing on the combination of the previous indicators