General Growth Balance Completeness
Estimate the completeness of death registration from the aggregate general growth-balance identity B - D/c = r N, solved as c = D / (B - r N) using intercensal births, deaths, person-years and the annual growth rate.
Description
Estimate the completeness of death registration from the aggregate general growth-balance identity B - D/c = r N, solved as c = D / (B - r N) using intercensal births, deaths, person-years and the annual growth rate.
Estimate the completeness of death registration from the aggregate general growth-balance identity B - D/c = r N, solved as c = D / (B - r N) using intercensal births, deaths, person-years and the annual growth rate.1
When to use General Growth Balance Completeness
Use this method when reconciling census counts, coverage, or intercensal components that share clearly stated reference dates and population definitions.
- Deaths
- Deaths registered between the two census dates.
- Births
- Births recorded between the two census dates (coverage-adjusted where available).
- Growth rate
- Annual intercensal population growth rate per year.
- Person-years
- Person-years lived by the population between the censuses.
How the method works
- Completeness
- Estimated fraction of deaths captured by registration.
Limitations and assumptions
Census-based estimates inherit omissions, duplications, age misstatement, boundary changes, and differences in reference dates. A small closure error does not prove that every component is complete or unbiased.
Alternative or Complementary measures
Compare the result with a post-enumeration survey, administrative registers, vital-statistics residual, or a second coverage method. Agreement between methods is more informative than a single closure estimate.
References
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Census — Wikipedia contributors
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