Table 4.
Sensitivity Analysis of Possible Effects of 0.5%, 1%, and 1.5% Overreporting of the Pregnancy Checkbox on Maternal Mortality Rates
| Age (years) | Number of maternal deaths |
Number of female deaths from natural causes (excludes maternal deaths) |
Number of maternal deaths with 0.5% false positives added to total |
Percent increase in MMR with 0.5% false positive rate |
Number of maternal deaths with 1% false positives added to total |
Percent increase in MMR with 1% false positive rate |
Number of maternal deaths with 1.5% false positives added to total |
Percent increase in MMR with 1.5% false positive rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 907 | 82,572 | 1,320 | 45.5 | 1,733 | 91.0 | 2,146 | 136.6 |
| <40 | 618 | 15,553 | 696 | 12.6 | 774 | 25.2 | 851 | 37.8 |
| 15–19 | 26 | 929 | 31 | 17.9 | 35 | 35.7 | 40 | 53.6 |
| 20–24 | 119 | 1,619 | 127 | 6.8 | 135 | 13.6 | 143 | 20.4 |
| 25–29 | 152 | 2,568 | 165 | 8.4 | 178 | 16.9 | 191 | 25.3 |
| 30–34 | 177 | 4,092 | 197 | 11.6 | 218 | 23.1 | 238 | 34.7 |
| 35–39 | 144 | 6,345 | 176 | 22.0 | 207 | 44.1 | 239 | 66.1 |
| 40–54 | 289 | 67,019 | 624 | 115.9 | 959 | 231.9 | 1,294 | 347.8 |
MMR= maternal mortality rate