Table 1.

National and subnational operational characteristics of the CRS and SRS in India

	Districts	Civil Registration system							Sample Registration Systems
		Registration units	Reporting coverage	Population	Observed Deaths	Delayed registration	Estimated completeness of death registration (%)		Sample units	Sample population	Observed Deaths
				Millions	000s	%	AL method*	ORGI method†		Millions	000s
				M / F	M/F	Both sexes	M/F	Both sexes		Both sexes	M/F
	722	284671	94.2	665 / 619	3821 / 2639	6	82 / 76	79	8850	7.925	26.6 / 22.2
Andhra Pradesh	13	14444	99.5	26 / 26	217 / 138	3	93 / 90	95	325	0.327	1.3 / 1.01
Arunachal Pradesh	25	221	52.9	0.69 / 0.64	2.2 / 0.74	50	55 / 24	36	65	0.041	NA
Assam	33	676	100	17 / 16	76 / 65	10	72 / 73	66	300	0.219	0.76 / 0.59
Bihar	38	9220	76.4	54 / 51	158 / 104	NA	56 / 45	43	330	0.366	1.05 / 0.99
Chhattisgarh	27	17407	100	13 / 13	97 / 75	7.5	87 / 88	89	158	0.117	0.49 / 0.36
Goa	2	206	100	1.03 / 1	7.8 / 5.2	1.1	96 / 93	103	95	0.088	NA
Gujarat	33	17572	100	33 / 31	231 / 157	1.1	87 / 81	98	478	0.426	1.5 2/ 1.14
Haryana	22	608	100	15 / 12	103 / 72	NA	92 / 81	108	256	0.241	0.82 / 0.56
Himachal Pradesh	12	3285	N.A.	3.7 / 3.5	23 / 16	1.3	85 / 83	83	210	0.117	0.45 / 0.32
Jammu & Kashmir	22	356	63.5	6.7 / 5.9	22 / 16	0	53 / 59	62	350	0.283	0.82 / 0.55
Jharkhand	24	8857	N.A.	18 /17	70 / 46	NA	72 / 61	62	211	0.157	0.39 / 0.46
Karnataka	30	32304	100	32 / 31	292 / 190	7.7	96 / 94	117	511	0.495	1.78 / 1.43
Kerala	14	1035	N.A.	17 / 19	146 / 117	2	98 / 96	108	280	0.365	1.37 / 1.14
Madhya Pradesh	51	24550	97.8	41 / 38	224 / 147	7.1	69 / 60	69	448	0.402	1.52 / 1.16
Maharashtra	36	42015	91.2	64 / 58	369 / 273	6.2	92 / 90	93	662	0.517	1.60 / 1.36
Manipur	16	133	95.4	1.3 / 1.3	2.2 / 1.9	NA	34 / 25	30	165	0.149	NA
Meghalaya	11	164	62.2	1.4 / 1.4	8.2 / 5.5	3.1	84 / 72	80	130	0.081	NA
Mizoram	8	843	98.2	0.55/ 0.53	3.5 / 2.0	0.1	87 / 70	128	45	0.036	NA
Nagaland	11	1427	38.6	1.3 / 1.2	1.4 / 0.5	37.1	22 / 14	21	50	0.03	NA
Odisha	30	415	100	22 / 21	184 / 139	6.7	90 / 90	102	405	0.355	1.42 / 1.16
Punjab	23	3202	100	16 / 14	123 / 85	1.3	95 / 92	102	249	0.206	0.83 / 0.60
Rajasthan	33	10085	100	39 / 35	276 / 150	13.8	88 / 63	95	350	0.321	1.11 / 0.81
Sikkim	4	33	100	0.35 / 0.31	2 / 1.4	NA	78 / 81	113	65	0.061	NA
Tamil Nadu	32	16458	100	35 / 35	342 / 239	3.3	97 / 96	124	545	0.518	1.95 / 1.50
Telangana	31	8757	87.9	19 / 19	101 / 78	1	82 / 81	73	224	0.209	0.74 / 0.62
Tripura	8	1351	100	2 / 1.9	43785	14.2	93 / 87	130	90	0.106	NA
Uttarakhand	13	8131	54.9	5.5 / 5.3	20 / 14	16	67 / 61	47	375	0.291	1.13 / 0.78
Uttar Pradesh	75	56756	87	117 / 105	345 / 227	NA	33 / 29	38	500	0.515	1.82 / 1.57
West Bengal	23	3945	98.8	49 / 47	256 / 187	4.7	85 / 82	92	555	0.544	1.68 / 1.35
Andaman & Nicobar	3	91	100	0.30 / 0.26	1.3 / 0.8	3.2	60 / 51	74	55	0.046	NA
Chandigarh	1	13	100	1.0 / 0.85	13.5 / 7.7	0.1	98 / 97	NA	40	0.032	NA
Dadra & Nagar Haveli	1	23	100	0.25 / 0.29	1.3 / 0.82	1.4	72 / 70	107	35	0.041	NA
Daman & Diu	2	24	100	0.22 / 0.14	0.73 / 0.41	2.3	49 / 51	69	25	0.028	NA
Delhi	11	18	100	11.8 / 10.3	84 / 52	0.9	91 / 85	NA	199	0.133	0.30 / 0.21
Lakshadweep	1	10	100	0.042 / 0.040	351	0.3	NA	65	14	0.013	NA
Puducherry	4	36	100	0.9 / 0.9	8.3 / 5.1	0.4	97 / 93	104	55	0.05	NA

*Adair-Lopez method.¹⁵

†ORGI method using SRS crude death rate to calculate expected deaths.

CRS, Civil Registration System; F, female; M, male; NA, not available; ORGI, Office of the Registrar General of India; SRS, Sample Registration System.