Fiji: Assessment
of the Quality of Cause of Death Data (2018–2023)

The analyses presented in this report are based on a quality review conducted on the mortality and cause of death data collected by the civil registration and vital statistics system of Fiji between 2018–2023, representing 50,683 reported deaths with cause of death data. The review was performed using the ANACoD3 software tool, focussing on Steps 1–10. The report provides an overall assessment of the quality of the data for use in policy, as summarised in 22 data quality checks spread out over three main components:

  1. Input data quality checks,
  2. Mortality level analyses and
  3. Cause of death analyses.