Table 1.

Vital events found in the proactive search by information source, Amazonia and Northeast Brazil, 2008

Source	Deaths	Live births
	n (%)	n (%)
Hospitals	2,196 (26.4)	9,027 (51.5)
Registry offices	2,588 (31.1)	7,397 (42.2)
Primary health care units	355 (4.3)	350 (2.0)
Institutes of forensic medicine/services of death investigation	402 (4.8)	-
Official and unofficial cemeteries	1,368 (16.5)	-
Funeral homes	960 (11.5)	-
Unified Registry of the Federal Government Social Programs	83 (1.0)	578 (3.3)
Other	360 (4.3)	175 (1.0)
Total	8,312 (100.0)	17,527 (100.0)