Afghanistan Mortality Survey 2010 - Measure DHS

Data from the AMS 2010 are internally consistent as evidenced by the fact that little differencewas found between the actual fertility and implied fertility when the Bongaarts proximate determinantsmodel was applied. A review of several data quality measures found some evidence of omission in theAMS birth data, especially of female births in the South zone. The pattern of omission as well as theunderrepresentation of households from rural areas, particularly in the South zone, suggest that the levelof fertility may be underestimated to some degree in the AMS. However, nothing in the data qualityanalysis indicates that the biases introduced by these problems are very large. Therefore, the AMS resultsprovide a relatively robust but not perfect picture of fertility patterns in Afghanistan.Fertility, Marriage, and Family Planning | 61