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Table 6.

Agreement characteristics of civil registration and verbal autopsy diagnoses for the short list causes/cause groups: Agincourt HDSS, 2006–09

Conditions		Total occur-rences of the cause in CR system	On VA instrument				Cause-specific mortality fraction in CR data	Cause-specific mortality fraction in VA data	Per cent difference in cause-specific mortality fraction	95% CI
Conditions		Total occur-rences of the cause in CR system	Cause confirmed on VA instrument	Cause assigned to other causes in VA system	Received from other causes in VA system	Total occurrences of the cause in VA system	Cause-specific mortality fraction in CR data	Cause-specific mortality fraction in VA data	Per cent difference in cause-specific mortality fraction	95% CI
1	Diarrhoea	365	20	345	49	69	17.1	3.2	−81	−85.2 to −75.9^a
2	Tuberculosis	368	124	244	205	329	17.2	15.4	−11	−20.7 to 0.7
3	HIV disease	156	73	83	599	672	7.3	31.4	331	268.2 to 405.0^a
4	Remaining infectious & parasitic disease	65	13	52	146	159	3.0	7.4	145	86.8 to 221.0^a
5	Neoplasms	72	28	44	70	98	3.4	4.6	36	6.2 to 75.0^a
6	Diabetes	45	15	30	21	36	2.1	1.7	−20	−43.8 to −13.3^a
7	Meningitis	56	15	41	69	84	2.6	3.9	50	11.3 to 102.7^a
8	Hypertensive disease	64	4	60	39	43	3.0	2.0	−33	−53.6 to −2.8^a
9	Remaining heart disease	84	10	74	65	75	3.9	3.5	−11	−33.2 to 19.4
10	Cerebrovascular disease	111	34	77	65	99	5.2	4.6	−11	−28.7 to 14.2
11	Acute lower respiratory infections	293	21	272	93	114	13.7	5.3	−61	−68.3 to −52.3^a
12	Other respiratory disease	72	4	68	11	15	3.4	0.7	−79	−87.7 to −65.0^a
13	Symptoms & ill-defined conditions	79	4	75	64	68	3.7	3.2	−14	−37.1 to 17.8
14	External causes	123	96	27	47	143	5.8	6.7	16	2.4 to 32.6^a
15	Remaining natural causes	184	35	149	98	133	8.6	6.2	−28	−40.7 to −12.0^a
	Total	2137	496	1641	1641	2137	100.0	100.0

^aThe confidence interval indicates significant changes in the cause-specific mortality fractions (P < 0.05).