Table 7.
Mortality due to undetermined causes by sex and age group in the Taabo HDSS, 2009–2011
| Male | Female | Total* | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|
|||||||||
| Age (years) | aDx | % | aMx (‰) | aDx | % | aMx (‰) | aDx | % | aMx (‰) |
| <1 | 8 | 1.0 | 10.7 | 6 | 0.8 | 8.8 | 14 | 1.9 | 9.7 |
| 1–4 | 5 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 5 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 11 | 1.5 | 0.8 |
| 5–14 | 2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.1 |
| 15–49 | 9 | 1.3 | 0.4 | 7 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 16 | 2.3 | 0.3 |
| 50–64 | 7 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 5 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 12 | 1.7 | 1.7 |
| ≥65 | 8 | 1.1 | 4.9 | 7 | 0.9 | 4.5 | 15 | 2.1 | 4.7 |
| All* | 38 | 5.3 | 0.7 | 33 | 4.7 | 0.7 | 71 | 10.0 | 0.7 |
This table summarizes the mortality due to causes that could not be determined despite complete data from verbal autopsy.
aDx=cause-specific number of deaths in the sex-specific cohort from age a to age x.
% = percentage of all 712 cases of death that could be examined with the InterVA-4 tool.
aMx (‰)=cause-specific 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.