Official reports led people using the data to believe that the MMR in the province was on track for Millennium Development Goal 5 (to reduce MMR by three-quarters by 2015). The present survey showed that local civil registries missed three-quarters of all maternal deaths. All countries engaged in addressing maternal mortality reduction should consider similar approaches to improve data quality.
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