Table 2. Estimated completeness of birth registration before the end of the calendar year after the year of birth, by province and data source, South Africa, 2001–2011.

Province	Data sourcea	Completeness of birth registration, %
		2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Eastern Cape	Census	60	64	69	75	80	83	80	81	80	82	ND
	DHIS	ND	ND	ND	122	121	120	115	111	104	102	94
Free State	Census	66	74	79	80	83	86	82	86	83	86	ND
	DHIS	ND	ND	ND	101	103	105	105	107	107	112	112
Gauteng	Census	84	87	85	90	89	85	83	82	79	76	ND
	DHIS	ND	ND	ND	96	97	98	97	97	93	98	95
KwaZulu-Natal	Census	67	81	77	76	80	87	84	86	82	84	ND
	DHIS	ND	ND	ND	100	105	110	110	108	107	109	108
Limpopo	Census	65	67	70	74	77	77	78	82	81	82	ND
	DHIS	ND	ND	ND	98	97	96	96	96	95	99	99
Mpumalanga	Census	57	67	76	83	83	85	86	88	84	86	ND
	DHIS	ND	ND	ND	113	110	110	111	110	110	113	113
Northern Cape	Census	72	76	79	84	88	89	90	93	90	91	ND
	DHIS	ND	ND	ND	105	107	108	111	112	113	113	114
North West	Census	78	83	90	93	101	99	100	103	100	97	ND
	DHIS	ND	ND	ND	126	130	132	134	132	132	137	134
Western Cape	Census	85	90	87	95	97	98	92	94	89	87	ND
	DHIS	ND	ND	ND	104	111	112	111	110	111	115	114
Nationally	Census	73	79	79	82	86	86	84	86	84	83	ND
	DHIS	ND	ND	ND	105	107	105	103	102	99	101	102

DHIS: District Health Information System; ND: not determined.

^a The completeness of birth registration before the end of the calendar year after the year of birth was derived from 2011 census data using the reverse survival method and from routine health statistics in the District Health Information System (DHIS) adjusted for births in private health facilities and at home. The calendar year of registration closed at the end of February of the following year.