demographic yearbook annuaire demographique 1951

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Agreement between individual countries for all causes com- involving cancer and other tumors. The average agreement
bined ranged from 89.6 per cent (Ceylon and the United was low in cases involving causes such as anemia (48.4 per
States) to 31.9 per cent (Denmark and Turkey). By cause cent), cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral embolism (49.8 per
of death, the highest average agreement (77.4 per cent) cent), diseases of the prostate (51.6 per cent) and alcoholism
among the 18 countries was in the assignment of cases (52.3 per cent).
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Summary of agreement between countries in selection of certain primary causes of death
Cause of death
(Fourth (1929) Revision
List Nos. in parentheses)
Number
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Percentage agreement in selection
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Average Maximum Minimum
Total (All Cases). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1,032 57.5 89.6 31.9
Influenza (11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 60.2 93.5 27.6
Tuberculosis (23-32). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 62.5 98.3 37.9
Syphilis (34). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .. . 48 52.1 98.0 12.5
Cancer and other tumors (45-54). . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 63 77.4 96.8 41.0
Diabetes mellitus (59).......................... 70 55.7 97.1 17.1
Diseases of thyroid and parathyroid glands (66) . . . . 30 55.4 100.0 11.1
Anemias (71). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 48.4 97.5 16.2
Alcoholism (75). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 52.3 95.5 9.1
Meningitis (79). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 58.0 90.6 25.0
Cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral embolism, etc. (82). . 107 49.8 89.7 15.9
Diseases of the heart (90-95). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326 56.4 90.2 31.7
Arteriosclerosis (97). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 52.6 92.2 21.6
Pneumonia (107-109). . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 55.7 90.5 16.9
Diseases of buccal cavity, etc. (115)............... 67 52.3 89.6 17.9
Ulcer of stomach and duodenum (117) 26 56.7 100.0 19.2
Appendicitis (121). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 58.0 84.4 28.1
Hernia and intestinal obstruction (122). . . . . . . . . . . 43 60.3 88.9 39.5
Cirrhosis of the liver (124). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 59.4 93.8 34.4
Peritonitis, cause not specified (129). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 53.6 86.8 26.3
Nephritis (130-132). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 110 54.0 90.0 28.2
Diseases of the prostate (137). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 51.6 89.2 16.2
Diseases of pregnancy, etc. (140-150). . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 57.1 84.3 27.7
Deaths under 1 year of age. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 57.0 90.0 29.2
Table L summarizes the percentage distribution of the practice there of charging deaths involving pneumonia and
1,032 cases among the 18 major subdivisions of the Fourth influenza (or pneumonia and other infectious and parasitic
Revision of the International List of Causes of Death, as diseases, such as measles, scarlet fever, whooping cough and
reported by each country. The distributions show marked malaria) to pneumonia. Since influenza was classified in
differences, considering that they are in such broad group- the 1929 International List as an infectious and parasitic
ings. For example, one country (Norway) assigned 29.5 per disease, and pneumonia as a disease of the respiratory
cent of the cases to infectious and parasitic diseases, while system, the proportion of cases assigned by Turkey to disanother
(Turkey) assigned only 12.1 per cent. The low eases of the respiratory system was correspondingly higher.
assignment in Turkey apparently arose from the statistical
TABLE L
Percentage of cases assigned by each nation to the major subdivisi·ons of the International List
Fourth Revision (1929)
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