Table 2.

Number of events and corresponding completeness rates (%) in the survey

Event type	Questionnaire type
	Both		Birth history		Pregnancy history
	Actual no. of events	Completeness (%)	Actual no. of events	Completeness (%)	Actual no. of events	Completeness (%)
Number of womena	1925	–	930	–	995	–
Live births	5425	99.2	2666	99.0	2759	99.4
All infant deaths 0–119 months before survey	315	84.1	138	81.9	177	85.9
Infants deaths 0–59 months before survey	151	88.1	69	85.5	82	90.2
Infant deaths 60–119 months before survey	164	80.5	69	78.3	95	82.1
Neonatal deaths	192	82.3	84	81.0	108	83.3
Early neonatal	135	80.7	58	79.3	77	81.8
Late neonatal	57	86.0	26	84.6	31	87.1
Post neonatal	123	87.0	54	83.3	69	89.9
Living children	4718	99.9	2339	99.8	2379	100.0
Dead children*	707	94.5	327	93.0	380	95.8

*Observed difference between birth histories and pregnancy histories were marginally significant (p = 0.07) among dead children

^aNumber of women who did not out-migrate between June 1979 and May 1994 and whose last pregnancy occurred during that period