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Table 4 Proportion of ill-defined conditions, injuries, home deaths, municipalities, and population by municipality size in selected administrative areas of Brazil, 2007

From: Use of verbal autopsy in a national health information system: Effects of the investigation of ill-defined causes of death on proportional mortality due to injury in small municipalities in Brazil

Administrative area and municipality size (inhabitants)

% Ill-defined

% Injury

% Home deaths

% Municipalities

% Population

Minas Gerais northeast

     
 

(n = 5,409)

(n = 5,409)

(n = 5,409)

(n = 63)

(n = 881,340)

   < 50,000

29.8

8.7

35.9

98.4

85.6

   50,000-99,999

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

0.0

   100,000 +

9.5

10.6

22.3

1.6

14.4

   Missing*

2.5

2.5

2.5

0.0

0.0

   Total

25.8

9.2

32.5

100.0

100.0

Minas Gerais state

     
 

(n = 111,366)

(n = 111,366)

(n = 111,366)

(n = 853)

(n = 19,719,285)

   < 50,000

14.3

9.2

25.7

92.1

42.3

   50,000-99,999

12.2

10.0

19.2

4.5

13.6

   100,000 +

7.5

13.5

16.3

3.4

44.1

   Missing*

0.2

0.2

0.2

0.0

0.0

   Total

11.2

11.1

20.9

100.0

100.0

Southeast

     
 

(n = 495,877)

(n = 495,877)

(n = 495,877)

(n = 1,668)

(n = 80,641,101)

   < 50,000

12.2

9.2

22.0

85.7

22.0

   50,000-99,999

11.1

10.3

16.9

6.2

9.3

   100,000 +

6.1

11.4

13.8

8.1

68.7

   Missing*

0.5

0.5

0.5

0.0

0.0

   Total

8.0

11.0

15.9

100.0

100.0

Brazil

     
 

(n = 1,047,824)

(n = 1,047,824)

(n = 1,047,824)

(n = 5,564)

(n = 189,335,191)

   < 50,000

10.6

11.3

30.2

89.5

33.8

   50,000-99,999

9.0

12.5

23.0

5.6

11.4

   100,000 +

5.5

13.0

16.0

4.9

54.8

   Missing*

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.0

0.0

   Total

7.7

12.5

21.4

100.0

100.0

  1. Source: Ministry of Health (http://www2.datasus.gov.br/DATASUS/index.php; accessed May 2011)
  2. * Record linkage of the population size data bank and the Mortality Information System was not possible.