Participant households had been enrolled in the program for an average of 53 months at the time of the survey, compared with 54 months for non-surveyed records in the database.
We found a reasonably good sensitivity and specificity for both deaths from AIDS and those from tuberculosis in the original survey compared with the re-sampled causes of deaths, and our results were also comparable to those of earlier validation studies that compared diagnosis of tuberculosis by using the RHIME verbal autopsy technique with that in hospital records.
So far we have only around 1,000 Brits have completed the survey, compared with more than 65,000 Germans.
Mortgage brokers also fared poorly in the new survey, compared with companies that lend directly to borrowers like mortgage banks, savings banks and credit unions.
Baghdad and Port-au-Prince were in the bottom 10 of the 221 cities that the survey compared, with Baghdad at 221.
An estimated 90% of those from the wealthiest backgrounds will have played an instrument, according to the survey, compared with 80% of those from other social backgrounds.
Just 43percentt of the lowest fifth of earners were homeowners, according to the expenditure survey, compared with 88percentt of the highest fifth.
In 2012, recorders saw on average 44 butterflies of four species in each survey, compared with an average of 80 butterflies of eight species in 2009.
Checking accounts with no monthly fee were offered by more than two-thirds of the online banks in the survey, compared with roughly a third of traditional banks.
They drink alcohol much more rarely (just 12% did so in the week before the survey, compared with between 19% and 26% in the other regions) and are no more likely to take illicit drugs.
For a start, only 60% of blacks aged 18-24 arevenen registered, according to a recent MORI survey, compared with 83% of that age group for the population as a whole.
