Violence Notification Quality in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2009-2016

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, recorded 103,841 cases of violence between 2009 and 2016. The data was collected via the Information System on Diseases of Compulsory Declaration and analyzed by Vânia Reis Girianelli. The study found 31.7% of cases could not be classified as interpersonal or self-inflicted violence.

Use Cases

• Assessing data consistency trends based on the temporal analysis of field incongruence proportions.
• Evaluating the reliability of violence classification based on the high rate of unidentifiable case types.
• Identifying specific field inconsistencies such as those between psychological violence and aggression.
• Analyzing the stability of reporting errors over time based on the statistical significance of trends.

Strengths

• 103,841 cases of violence provide a substantial sample size.
• Data spans an 8-year period from 2009 to 2016, allowing for temporal trend analysis.
• The study quantifies a specific data quality issue: 31.7% of cases lacked clear classification.

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

Information System on Diseases of Compulsory Declaration (Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação - SINAN)

Collection Method

Ecological study on the consistency of notifications.

Time Range

2009-2016

Geography

State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil