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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 1 Data sources used for this study

From: Motivations and barriers to death registration in Dakar, Senegal

Data source

Year

Type of data

Information used

National census

2013

Individual-level data extracted from the census database

Age and sex of deceased members who died in the 12 months before the census; characteristics of their household

Administrative survey among civil registration centres

2017

Aggregate data

GPS coordinates of the civil registration centres and their characteristics

Survey among relatives of the deceased

2018–2019

Individual-level data from a retrospective survey among relatives of deceased persons who died between December 2018 and February 2019 and were reported to civil registration offices

Reasons for registering deaths; sources of information on death registration