Fig. 1.

Flowchart of modelling methods to estimate country-specific distributions of neonatal cause of deaths

UN-IGME: United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation; VR: vital registration.

Notes: Details on the differences between this and previous modelling methods can be found in Appendix B (available from: http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.4021). Early neonatal period is defined as age 0–6 days and late neonatal period as age 7–27 days.