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Table 5 Costs of data sources for vital statistics over a 20-year period

From: Economic analysis of producing vital statistics using civil registration data in Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Data source

Composite quality index

Average cost per year

Number of records/units

Cost per quality-adjusted unit

Ranking

CRVS

0.92

1,973,000

6,700,000

0.32

1

Census

0.42

1,860,000

6,700,000

0.66

2

Survey

0.28

240,000

52,460

16.34

3