Table 1 Number of deaths in children under five and existence of corresponding verbal autopsy (VA) information by sex, year, age group, setting and season in the period 01.01.1999 to 31.12.2003 in the DSS of Nouna, Burkina Faso
From: Pattern of cause-specific childhood mortality in a malaria endemic area of Burkina Faso
Total (N) | Total person-years | VA collected (%) | p1 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gender | Female | 738 | 24,712.1 | 78.46 | 0.99 |
Male | 806 | 24,695.5 | 78.04 | ||
Date of death | 1999 | 226 | 6,245.2 | 74.34 | 0.04 |
2000 | 339 | 10,567.8 | 74.34 | ||
2001 | 340 | 10,927.1 | 80.59 | ||
2002 | 279 | 10,895.9 | 81.72 | ||
2003 | 360 | 10,771.6 | 79.44 | ||
Age | Neonates (< 1 month) | 87 | 929.8 | 68.97 | < 0.01 |
Infants (1–5 months) | 225 | 4,672.3 | 75.56 | ||
Infants (6–11 months) | 317 | 5,392.3 | 78.86 | ||
Children (1–4) | 915 | 38,413.3 | 79.56 | ||
Setting | Villages | 1,237 | 36,735.6 | 77.85 | 0.87 |
Nouna town | 307 | 12,672.1 | 79.80 | ||
Season | rainy (Jun-Oct) | 713 | 20,484.9 | 80.79 | 0.02 |
dry (Nov-May) | 831 | 28,922.8 | 76.05 | ||
Total | 1,544 | 49,407.7 | 78.23 |