Table 3.
Summary of birth registration question responses for livebirths by child’s sex and HDSS site
| Number of live births (n) | Registration with civil authorities (%) | % registered with civil authorities | % of children registered for whom time from birth to registration was reported | ||||
| Registered and have birth certificate | Registered but don't have birth certificate | Don't know whether registered | Didn't register | ||||
| Children surviving the neonatal period | |||||||
| Overall | 10,548 | 26.7 | 4.0 | 1.6 | 67.7 | 30.7 | 93.6 |
| Child sex | |||||||
| Female | 5,319 | 26.3 | 4.3 | 1.8 | 67.6 | 30.7 | 92.9 |
| Male | 5,229 | 27.0 | 3.7 | 1.5 | 67.8 | 30.6 | 94.3 |
| HDSS site | |||||||
| Bandim | 1,319 | 22.0 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 76.3 | 22.9 | 93.7 |
| Dabat | 3,361 | 3.7 | 2.4 | 3.6 | 90.3 | 6.1 | 73.1 |
| IgangaMayuge | 1,917 | 17.6 | 14.4 | 0.9 | 67.1 | 31.9 | 94.1 |
| Kintampo | 3,951 | 52.2 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 46.0 | 53.5 | 95.4 |
| Neonatal deaths | |||||||
| Overall | 1,333 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 1.9 | 96.3 | 1.7 | 82.6 |
| Child sex | |||||||
| Female | 519 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 2.3 | 96.7 | 1 | 62.5 |
| Male | 814 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 96.6 | 2.9 | 93.3 |
| HDSS site | |||||||
| Bandim | 471 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 99.2 | 0.4 | 50 |
| Dabat | 247 | 1.2 | 0.0 | 5.7 | 93.1 | 1.2 | 100 |
| IgangaMayuge | 247 | 3.6 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 92.4 | 5.7 | 78.6 |
| Kintampo | 368 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 97.8 | 1.1 | 100 |