Improving the Quality of Adult Mortality Data Collected in Demographic Surveys: Validation Study of a New Siblings' Survival Questionnaire in Niakhar, Senegal

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Helleringer, Stéphane ^a   Pison, Gilles ^b   Masquelier, Bruno ^c   Kanté, Almamy Malick ^a,d   Douillot, Laetitia ^b   Duthé, Géraldine ^b   Sokhna, Cheikh ^e,f   Delaunay, Valérie ^f,g  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL D'ÉTUDES DÉMOGRAPHIQUES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^f INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^g Aix Marseille University Marseille   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIBLING; SURVIVAL; VALIDATION PROCESS; ADOLESCENT; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENEGAL; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL BIAS; VALIDATION STUDY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SENEGAL; SIBLINGS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901475997     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001652     Document Type: Article

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