Publications by authors named "Robert Dorrington"
Estimating completeness of birth registration in South Africa, 1996 - 2011.
Bull World Health Organ
July 2019
Objective: To estimate the completeness of live birth registration through South Africa's civil registration and vital statistics system between 1996 and 2011.
Methods: The number of births registered by the civil registration and vital statistics system was compared with independent estimates of the true number of births derived using: (i) the reverse survival method applied to 2011 census data; (ii) the application of estimated age-specific fertility rates to population estimates from censuses and surveys; and (iii) data from the public-sector district health information system.
Findings: In 1996, an estimated 25% of births were registered within the calendar year of birth and 33% were registered before the end of the subsequent calendar year.