Correction of vital statistics based on a proactive search of deaths and live births: evidence from a study of the North and Northeast regions of Brazil

Table 2 **Log-log models fitted to live births, total and infant death correction factors*, Brazilian regions, 2008**

Model	Coefficients
	B	Std. error	t	Sig.
Response variable: live birth correction factor*
(Constant)	0.059	0.007	8.327	0.000
Logarithm of R _LB	−0.473	0.038	−12.352	0.000
Multiple Correlation Coefficient (R): 0.739 (<0.0001).
Response variable: total death correction factor*
(Constant)	0.026	0.006	4.123	0.000
Logarithm of R	−0.955	0.018	−52.133	0.000
Multiple correlation Coefficient (R): 0.977 (<0.0001).
Response variable: infant death correction factor*
(Constant)	0.036	0.022	1.609	0.111
Logarithm of the total death correction factor	1.058	0.089	11.948	0.000
Logarithm of R _IM	−0.076	0.035	−2.157	0.033
Multiple correlation coefficient (R): 0.777 (<0.0001).

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