title: [Integrity of the death records and problems of information transcription in 8 states of the Mexican Republic].
abstract: This paper states some of the main problems associated with the collection and processing of the information about deaths in Mexico. The results reported are in relation to the integrity and transcription problems found in 23 municipalities of eight states of the Republic of Mexico. The main results were: lack of continuity in the flow of information; different criteria in the handling of the several existing formats; incomplete documentation (medical death certificates, official registration and special concentration forms 823-824) in 39 percent, with a variation range of 2 to 72 percent depending of the particular degree of development in each state or county; the forms used to make up the national death statistics (forms 823-824) were not found in 21.5 percent of the cases, and transcription problems of the main variables (age, sex and cause of death), using as common denominator (total deaths) those registered at least in 2 documents, occurred in 26 percent of the age registers, 22.4 percent in the case of sex, and 51.6 percent in the cause of death variable.
authors.forename: P B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Crevenna-Horney
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Real-Mata
mesh_terms: D003644:Death Certificates; D006801:Humans; D008800:Mexico; D009026:Mortality; D012042:Registries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
vernacular_title: Integridad de las fuentes de defunción y problemas en la transcripción de la información en ocho estados de la República Mexicana.