Table 4.
Zonal distribution of causes of 1–59 months children deaths (weighted)
| Physician Coded Verbal Autopsy Causes of deaths (%) |
P-value | Expert Algorithm Verbal Autopsy Causes of deaths (%) |
P-value | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zone | Diarrhoea (95% CI) | Pneumonia (95% CI) | Malaria (95% CI) | Other (95% CI) | Diarrhoea (95% CI) | Pneumonia (95% CI) | Malaria (95% CI) | Others (95% CI) | ||
| North Central | 15.3 (11.1 – 20.7) | 12.2 (8.4 – 17.1) | 24.4 (19.3 – 30.6) | 48.0 (41.5 – 54.7) | 19.1 (14.2 – 24.6) | 20.1 (15.3 – 25.9) | 36.1 (30.0 – 42.7) | 25.0 (19.7- 31.1) | ||
| North East | 21.7 (17.9 – 26.0) | 9.1 (6.7 – 12.4) | 27.2 (23.0 – 31.7) | 41.8 (37.2- 46.9) | 29.0 (24.7 – 33.5) | 11.1 (8.3 – 14.5) | 36.1 (31.7 – 41.1) | 23.8 (19.9 – 28.2) | ||
| North West | 24.3 (22.0 – 27.0) | 9.3 (7.8 – 11.0) | 22.0 (19.8 – 24.5) | 44.3 (41.6 – 47.1) | 30.0 (27.5 – 32.6) | 10.9 (9.3 – 12.8) | 34.1 (31.5 – 36.8) | 25.0 (22.6 – 27.5) | ||
| South East | 12.4 (7.7 – 20.2) | 12.4 (7.4 – 19.7) | 13.3 (8.1 – 20.8) | 61.9 (52.5 – 70.3) | 25.9 (18.6 – 34.7) | 16.2 (10.5 – 24.2) | 36.3 (27.9 – 45.4) | 21.8 (15.1 – 30.3) | ||
| South South | 15 .0 (9.4 – 23.7) | 8 .0 (3.9 – 15.0) | 18.0 (11.6 – 26.7) | 59.0 (49.1 – 68.3) | 15.4 (9.5 – 23.9) | 14.2 (8.6 – 22.6) | 35.4 (26.7 – 45.3) | 35.0 (26.3 – 44.8) | ||
| South West | 11.4 (6.2 – 20.7) | 13.9 (8.0 – 23.5) | 26.6 (18.0 – 37.3) | 48.1 (37.1 – 58.7) | < 0.00001 | 17.7 (10.9 – 27.8) | 9.0 (4.4 – 17.6) | 48.7 (37.9 – 59.6) | 25.3 (16.3 – 35.1) | < 0.0001 |
CI Confidence Interval; “Other” include severe anaemia (without a specific cause), sickle cell anaemia, haemorrhagic fever, and unexplained sudden death