Completeness of birth registration in Brazil: an overview of methods and data sources

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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 1 Comparison between TFRs according to different data sources and estimates, Brazil, 2000–2010

Source of data	Year of the inquiry			Plausibility
Source of data	2000	2005	2010	Plausibility
Vital registration	Unadjusted TFR	SRG-estimated TFR	Unadjusted TFR	Plausible
	2.09	1.75*	1.72	Plausible
	P/F-adjusted TFR		P/F-adjusted TFR	Plausible
	2.17	1.75*	1.75	Plausible
	Official estimates (IDB SINASC/DATASUS, 2013)
	2.29	1.99	1.82
Census	Unadjusted TFR	SRG-estimated TFR	Unadjusted TFR	Plausible
	2.15	1.76*	1.60	Plausible
	P/F-adjusted TFR		P/F-adjusted TFR	Less plausible
	2.37	1.76*	1.91	Less plausible
	Own-children method
	2.46	1.96	1.78
	Official estimates (IBGE 2012)
	2.38	−	1.90
PNDS		1.80

Sources: DATASUS 2000 and 2010 and Censuses – IBGE, 2000 and 2010
Note: P/F correction applied, 4% increase in the ASRFs in 2000 and 2% in 2010, for vital registration data. For census data correction increment ASRF of 11% in 2000 and 19% in 2010
Official DATASUS estimates based on direct and indirect methods
SINASC/DATASUS official data provided by Indicadores e Dados Básicos – Brazil –IDB (2013)
*Synthetic Relational Gompertz intercensal estimates. Own-children method estimates provided by HFC (2017), estimated by Lima (2013)