Is it plausible that such a high proportion of households could produce death certificates within the time available for the interviews?
Some have questioned that death certificates could be produced within a short time (15-20 minutes) available for the survey interviews. One commentator put it this way: And 92% produced death certificates? Maybe households in poorer countries keep that stuff in a special place forever, where they can instantly put their hands on it . . . but I certainly wouldn’t want to bet that my family of pack rats could immediately produce a death certificate when asked for any of my dead relatives, much less all of them. And the average household had six people, yet the interviews supposedly took only 15 minutes. link The survey results do imply that Iraqis generally keep death certificates available for production at short notice. One possible explanation is that death certificates are an important document and used for a number of purposes after deaths. Situations where relatives may be required to produce a death certificates include: • highway checkpoints, • entitlement to government pensions
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