Child mortality dataset (from the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation database). June 2019

This dataset compromises all country data included in the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) database (https://childmortality.org/data, downloaded June 2019).

It includes:

Reference area: name of the country

Indicator: child mortality indicator (neonatal mortality, infant mortality, under-5 mortality and mortality rate age 5 to 14)

Sex: sex of the child (male, female and total)

Series name: name of survey/census/VR [note: UN IGME estimates, i.e. not source data, are identified as "UN IGME estimate" in this field]

Series year: year of survey/census/VR series

Observation value: value of indicator from survey/census/VR

Observation status: indicates whether the data point is included  or excluded for estimation [status of "normal" indicates UN IGME estimate, i.e. not source data]

Series Category: category of survey/census/VR, and can be:

DHS [Demographic and Health Survey]

MIS [Malaria Indicator Survey]

AIS [AIDS Indicator Survey]

Interim DHS

Special DHS

NDHS [National DHS]

WFS [World Fertility Survey]

MICS [Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey]

NMICS [National MICS]

RHS [Reproductive Health Survey]

PAP [Pan Arab Project for Child or Pan Arab Project for Family Health or Gulf Famly Health Survey]

LSMS [Living Standard Measurement Survey]

Panel [Dual record, multiround/follow-up survey and longitudinal/panel survey]

Census

VR [Vital Registration]

SVR [Sample Vital Registration]

Others [e.g. Life Tables]

Series type: the type of calculation method used to derive the indicator value (direct, indirect, household deaths, life table and vital records)

Standard error: sampling standard error of the observation value

Series method: data collection method, and can be:

Survey/census with Full Birth Histories

Survey/census with Summary Birth Histories

Survey/census with Household death

Vital Registration

Other

Lower and upper bound: the lower and upper bounds of 90% uncertainty interval of UN IGME estimates (for estimates only, i.e., not source data).

The dataset is used in the following paper:

Ezbakhe, F. and Pérez-Foguet, A. (2019) Levels and trends in child mortality: a compositional approach. Demographic Research (Under Review)