Adult death registration in Matlab, rural Bangladesh: completeness, correlates, and obstacles

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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 4 Crude and adjusted odds ratios of death registration, Adult mortality estimation and validation survey, 2019–2020

Death registration to CRVS	cOR	Model 1 Adjusted for correlation of observations within households			Model 2^a Adjusted for correlation of observations within households and village effects
		aOR	95% CI		aOR	95% CI
		aOR	Lower limit	Upper limit	aOR	Lower limit	Upper limit
Female (Ref: Male)	0.16**	0.16***	0.07	0.36	0.15***	0.06	0.36
Age at death (Ref: 15–34 years)
35–44	1.42	1.32	0.45	3.86	0.85	0.15	4.79
45–54	2.76	2.18	0.80	5.98	3.01	0.75	12.07
55–64	2.16	1.86	0.68	5.12	1.62	0.39	6.69
65–74	0.93	1.07	0.32	3.55	0.57	0.12	6.63
75–84	0.87	1.07	0.29	3.90	0.33	0.07	1.57
85+	0.66	0.99	0.27	3.59	.45	0.09	2.28
Wealth quintile (Ref: Lowest)
Second	1.41	1.52	0.57	4.07	2.97	0.75	11.70
Middle	2.98**	1.86**	1.39	10.75	3.24	0.94	11.13
Fourth	2.74*	2.62	0.95	7.28	10.21**	2.56	40.64
Highest	1.99	2.46	0.96	6.27	5.01*	1.44	17.48
Missing	2.69*	3.94*	1.03	15.00	8.53**	1.94	37.53
Injuries/accidental deaths (Ref: Yes)	0.42	0.58	0.17	1.95	0.73	0.20	2.69
Facility death (Ref: outside facility death)	0.50**	0.73	0.33	1.61	0.81	0.33	1.99
Year of death	1.14	1.17	0.85	1.62	1.32	0.96	1.81
Constant	-	0.17^*	0.03^*	0.85	0.04^*	< 0.01	0.77
Number	571	571	-	-	379	-	-

**p < 0.01; *p < 0.05; cOR stands for crude odds ratio; aOR stands for adjusted odds ratio
^aModel 2 excludes villages having all deaths registered or no deaths registered; thus, drops 192 observations