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Can accurate data on birthweight be obtained from health interview surveys?

Author(s) -

Abel Robles,

Noreen Goldman

Publication year - 1999

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/28.5.925

Subject(s) - medicine , latin americans , estimation , developing country , demography , data collection , population , data quality , public health , environmental health , statistics , metric (unit) , philosophy , linguistics , operations management , mathematics , management , nursing , sociology , economics , economic growth

Because hospital records rarely exist for a representative sample of the population in developing countries, researchers frequently rely on birthweight data from surveys. Yet, the quality of these data has rarely been evaluated. This study explores the accuracy of birthweight information in six demographic and health surveys in Latin America conducted in the early 1990s: two in Guatemala, and one each in Bolivia, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Peru.

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