Extended Data Fig. 9: Reliability evaluation of orphanhood incidence estimates by state, race and ethnicity and leading parental cause-of-death.
From: Orphanhood and caregiver death among children in the United States by all-cause mortality, 2000–2021
(a) Example of completeness evaluation for state-, sex-, age- and race and ethnicity-specific live birth counts in New Mexico (see Methods). (b) Example of completeness evaluation for state-, sex-, age-, race and ethnicity- and leading-causes-specific mortality counts in New Mexico (see Methods). Only data shown in bold were retained for further analysis. (c) To assess the reliability of state- and race and ethnicity-specific orphanhood estimates, we considered weighted averages of the orphanhood incidence estimates across race and ethnicity, and then compared the weighted averages against state-level estimates (see colour, symbols). Triangles and circles are shown in opaque colour when race and ethnicity-specific estimates disagreed by more than 20% and were considered unreliable. Only median estimates are shown.
