Monthly data on caesarean practice using the Ten Group Classification System (2020-2024)

This dataset present summary statistics (numbers of vaginal deliveries and number of caesarean sections according to the Ten groups) that were collected daily from January 2020 to March 2024 in the 32 hospitals participating in the Quali-Dec project. The data were extracted from the hospitals’ birth registers and medical records by a trained health care provider and controlled quarterly by the country data manager. Monthly summary statistics were collected and managed by using REDCap electronic data capture tools hosted at the Karolinska Institute and controlled at a monthly frequency by the principal data manager for pending data and duplicated records. The dataset is composed with 1597 records that have been uploaded to Redcap: 400 from Argentina, 392 from Burkina Faso, 404 from Thailand and 401 from Vietnam. The data collected covered 598,555 deliveries: 326,743 vaginal births and 271,812 caesarean sections.