Bangladesh 1993-1994 Demographic and Health ... - Measure DHS

This cursory inspection of the quality of the BDHS data on childhood mortality indicates that infantdeaths might be slightly underestimated due to the tendency to heap the age at death at 12 months.Presumably, some of these deaths might have occurred before exact age 12 months. However, the effect onthe mortality estimates of errors of the magnitude revealed in the BDHS would be extremely small; thus theresults presented in this report are unadjusted for misreporting. No evidence of selective omission of deathsor of displacement of date of birth was detected.Table C.6 Reporting of age at death in daysDistribution of reported deaths under one month of age by age at deathin days and the percentage of neonatal deaths reported to occur at ages0-6 days, for five-year periods preceding the survey, Bangladesh1993-94Number of years preceding the surveyAge atdeathTo~l(in days) 0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 0-19