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Cause-of death statistics are usually available in tables which present for some items of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) annual numbers of deaths by age and sex. Most of the research on mortality by cause is based on these tables which are published by the National Statistical or Medical Institutes as well as by WHO. Very few studies take into account the previous steps of elaboration of cause-of-death statistics to evaluate the quality of the data production from the death of an individual to the addition of one more death in the specific cell of a table.
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Meslé, F. (2002). The registration of causes of death: Problems of comparability. In: Wunsch, G., Mouchart, M., Duchêne, J. (eds) The Life Table. European Studies of Population, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3381-6_8
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