Quality of the information about age on the death registers in Brazil, 1996-2015

• Autor(a) principal: Jacques, Fatima Valéria Lima
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Monteiro-da-Silva, José Henrique Costa, Guimarães, Raphael Mendonça
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: RECIIS (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.reciis.icict.fiocruz.br/index.php/reciis/article/view/1599
• topic: Data quality; Whipple Index; Myers Index; Mortality; Information systems.; Calidad de datos; Índice de Whipple; Índice de Myers; Mortalidad; Sistemas de información.; Qualidade de dados; Índice de Whipple; Índice de Myers; Mortalidade; Sistemas de Informação

This article presents the results of a research aimed at analyzing the quality of the information about the age on the death registers in Brazil, from 1996 to 2015. An analysis was performed by simple age of the deaths microdata in Brazil for that period. The preference for the last digits 0 and 5 was evaluated using the Whipple index (IW), while the preference for the last digits from 0 to 9 was expressed using the Myers (IM) method. The quality of the age data was high in the period [IWTtot = 0.55 - 0.83 (male) and 0.71 - 0.93 (female); IM = 0.388 - 1.004 (male) and 0.430 – 1.589 (female)]. The quality of the information was more satisfactory among men, and there was not a significant trend in the improvement suggesting stable quality during the 20 years analyzed. The preference was given to the last digit 0, mainly among women. It was concluded that data from death registers in Brazil regarding the age are satisfactory and can be used in demographic and epidemiological analyses.