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Table 5 Heaping indices for birthweight, overall and by card and recall (n = 7760)

From: Birthweight data completeness and quality in population-based surveys: EN-INDEPTH study

 

Bandim (Guinea-Bissau)

Dabat (Ethiopia)

IgangaMayuge (Uganda)

Matlab (Bangladesh)

Kintampo (Ghana)

Overall

 

Card

Recall

Card

Recall

Card

Recall

Card

Recall

Card

Recall

Card

Recall

1000 g

0.0

0.8

1.0

2.0

4.0

9.0

0.0

1.5

0.3

1.0

1.5

1.8

1500 g

0.0

1.5

0.0

2.0

4.0

15.0

1.1

1.4

0.2

2.0

0.5

1.9

2000 g

0.1

1.6

2.0

10.5

18.0

18.6

4.0

1.9

0.3

0.4

1.0

2.8

2500 g

0.1

0.8

8.0

3.6

3.1

2.3

1.0

1.3

0.4

1.3

0.4

1.6

3000 g

0.1

1.1

2.0

4.6

5.9

8.3

1.2

1.7

0.4

0.4

0.6

2.7

3500 g

0.1

0.6

3.3

3.3

2.6

3.3

0.8

2.0

0.4

0.8

0.4

1.9

4000 g

0.1

0.7

3.0

11.7

3.0

3.9

0.0

1.3

0.4

0.4

0.3

2.0

  1. Calculated as: number of babies with a given birthweight / number of babies with a birthweight within 249 g above or below the given birthweight, e.g. number exactly on 1500 g / (number (1251 g to 1499 g) + number (1501 g to 1749 g))