Afghanistan Mortality Survey 2010 - Measure DHS

D.3.1 Evidence of Underreporting of Recently Born ChildrenFigures D.1 through D.3 present the age distributions of living children from the pregnancyhistory and the household schedule for all Afghanistan, Afghanistan excluding the South, and the Southzone, respectively. Notable in the figures are the substantially smaller numbers of children ages 0 and 1compared with the numbers of older children. In this regard, the pregnancy history and householddistributions are very similar, indicating that about the same reporting errors affected both data sources.The number of surviving children ages 0 and 1 years is higher from the pregnancy history than thenumber in the household data. However, there are more children two years and older in the householddata than in the pregnancy history data. This is understandable, since some of the mothers of thesechildren may be older than 49 and thus not eligible for interview. For living children there does notappear to be any date of birth shifting at the boundary for asking additional questions on births anddeaths—that is, four to five years prior to the survey—in either data source.8,000Figure D.1 Number of Living Children From the Birth History andFrom the Household Schedule by Age, Afghanistan 20107,0006,000Number of living children5,0004,0003,0002,000Birth historyHH schedule1,00000 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15Age in yearsAMS 2010184 | Appendix D