Table 2.
Deaths with no or incomplete verbal autopsy data by sex and age group in the Taabo HDSS, 2009–2011
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| Age (years) | aDx | % | aMx (‰) | aDx | % | aMx (‰) | aDx | % | aMx (‰) |
| <1 | 13 | 1.4 | 18.4 | 16 | 1.7 | 22.9 | 29 | 3.1 | 20.6 |
| 1–4 | 27 | 2.8 | 4.2 | 26 | 2.7 | 4.0 | 53 | 5.6 | 4.1 |
| 5–14 | 7 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 11 | 1.2 | 0.4 |
| 15–49 | 45 | 4.7 | 1.8 | 32 | 3.4 | 1.4 | 77 | 8.1 | 1.6 |
| 50–64 | 21 | 2.2 | 5.5 | 7 | 0.7 | 2.2 | 28 | 3.0 | 4.0 |
| ≥65 | 15 | 1.6 | 9.4 | 23 | 2.4 | 14.6 | 38 | 4.0 | 12.0 |
| All* | 128 | 13.5 | 2.4 | 108 | 11.4 | 2.2 | 236 | 24.9 | 2.3 |
This table summarizes the cases of death that were registered in the Taabo HDSS but that could not or could only incompletely be investigated by means of verbal autopsy. Hence, these cases of death could not be included in the following causes of death analyses.
aDx=total number of deaths in the sex-specific cohort from age a to age x.
% = percentage of all 948 cases of death that were registered in the Taabo HDSS.
aMx (‰)=total mortality rate per 1,000 person-years in the sex-specific cohort from age a to age x.
Idiosyncrasies of InterVA-4 lead to minor rounding errors and explain small differences between the disaggregated data and the summed up totals as presented in this study.