Corrected Infant Mortality Estimates for Brazil and Municipalities, 2000-2009

A 2000-2009 dataset proposing a simplified method to correct vital information and estimate infant mortality coefficients for Brazil, its federal units, and municipalities. The method corrects mortality and live birth data from Brazilian Ministry of Health systems using factors derived from active search for unreported events. Paulo Germano de Frias authored this work, which shows a decreasing trend in both birth and infant mortality rates across all Brazilian regions during the period.

Use Cases

• Estimating corrected infant mortality rates based on reported and corrected vital statistics.
• Analyzing regional disparities in infant mortality using state and municipality-level data.
• Assessing the adequacy of vital information systems by comparing reported versus expected live births.
• Modeling temporal trends in birth and infant mortality rates from 2000 to 2009.

Strengths

• Covers a 10-year period (2000-2009) for longitudinal analysis.
• Includes data for Brazil, its regions, states, and all municipalities for granular geographic analysis.
• Method validated by similarity to active search results for the year 2008.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Brazilian Ministry of Health information systems on mortality and live births.

Collection Method

Data corrected using correction factors estimated from active search for unreported events.

Time Range

2000-2009

Geography

Brazil, including its federal units (states) and municipalities.