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[Completeness of mortality statistics in Navarra, Spain]
Revista Espanola De Salud Publica
|February 20, 2014
Summary
Navarra
Area of Science:
- Demography
- Public Health
- Gerontology
Background:
- Navarra, Spain, exhibits exceptionally high life expectancy for women.
- Assessing mortality data completeness is crucial for accurate demographic analysis.
Purpose of the Study:
- Evaluate the completeness of Navarra's 2009 official mortality statistics.
- Determine the impact of potential under-registration on life expectancy calculations.
Main Methods:
- Compared official death records (Instituto Nacional de Estadística) with a multi-source case-finding approach.
- Included electronic health records and legal medicine data for comprehensive death ascertainment.
Main Results:
- Identified 5,249 deaths; 103 were missing from official statistics, indicating 98.4% completeness.
- Corrected life expectancy for women decreased slightly from 86.6 to 86.4 years; for men, from 80.0 to 79.6 years.
Conclusions:
- Official mortality statistics in Navarra are largely complete, with no significant under-registration.
- Confirms the leading position of Navarrese women in European longevity, with a life expectancy of 86.4 years.
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