National, regional, and worldwide estimates of stillbirth rates in 2015, with trends from 2000: a systematic analysis – User Guide

Persistent identifier

10.17037/DATA.25

Creators

Hannah Blencowe, Simon Cousens, Fiorella Bianchi Jassir, Lale Say, Doris Chou, Colin Mathers, Dan Hogan, Suhail Shiekh, Zeshan Qureshi, Danzhen You, Joy Lawn

Description

Data produced by the Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) study to estimate national stillbirth rates (SBRs) and numbers for 195 countries. SBR data was collated through a systematic review of national routine/registration systems, nationally representative surveys, and other data sources, and subsequently modelled using restricted maximum likelihood estimation with country-level random effects. Data outputs include a list of 2207 stillbirth rate data points used as an input to the modelled estimates, yearly national-level covariates for each of the 195 countries studied from 2000 to 2015, and information on estimated stillbirth rates from 2000 to 2015 for countries with higher quality national routine time-series data for stillbirth rates, using loess regression of the country reported rates.

Data collection methods

We collated SBR data meeting pre-specified inclusion criteria from national routine/registration systems, nationally representative surveys, and other data sources identified through a systematic review web-based searches, and an investigator group. We modelled SBR (≥ 28 weeks gestation) for 195 countries using restricted maximum likelihood estimation with country-level random effects. Uncertainty ranges were obtained through a bootstrap approach.

Geographic regions

See ‘Supplementary appendix’ at 10.1016/S2214-109X(15)00275-2

Population

Human population

Privacy

This analysis involves secondary data analysis. All data sources were population based and contained no personal and sensitive information.

Ethics

Ethics approval was obtained from the ethics board of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Keywords

Stillbirth, Fetal death, Pregnancy

Language of written material

English

Project Information

Associated Roles

File Description

The ‘SBR_results’ data contains results of the work outlined in ‘stillbirth rate results’ in the paper 10.1016/S2214-109X(15)00275-2.

The national_covariates, reported_loess, and SBR_input data relate to data inputs for estimates produced and modelling Stata code used. see section on ‘data inputs and modelling’ in paper.