TABLE 1.

Assessment of household survey birthweight data quality¹

	Reported	Reported with simulated missingness	Reported with simulated missingness and multiple imputations
UNICEF LBW database quality criteria
1) Total number of births	1499	1483	1483
2) Percentage of births with a birthweight	95.1	32.0	100
3) Heaping criteria
a) Percentage of all birthweights falling on the 3 most frequent birthweights	58.0	60.6	19.6
b) Percentage of birthweights ≥4500 g	2.1	1.3	0.8
c) Percentage of birthweights on tail ends of 500 g and 5000 g	0.1	0.0	0.0
Additional quality indicators
Percentage of birthweights weighing exactly 2500 g	19.1	18.7	6.1
Percentage on 500s	71.4	71.6	23.1

¹LBW, low birthweight.