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Table 3 Summary of sources of data regarding births in Ouham-Pende and reported results

From: Surveys about attended births appear to be deceptive in CAR: are the population saying what they think NGO’s want to hear?

Source

Births/denominator

Annualized Birth rate %/yr.

% births at home

Reported pop. Represented

8/18 baseline survey of IRC service pop.

153 births / 4243 sample

5.6%

3%

93,754

8/18 baseline survey of 8 non-served matched control villages

48 births / 1190 sample

6.3%

29%

~ 16,000

Community surveillance data IRC service pop. Oct. 2018 – Feb. 2019.-.

127 births / est. 1804 sample pop. on average

5.0%

32%

93,754

IRC clinic based administrative estimates Oct. 2018 – July 2019

2194 births/ 93,754 population served

2.8%

5%

93,754