Implementing basic checks on cause-of-death data

The CoDEdit electronic tool is intended to help producers of cause-of-death statistics in strengthening their capacity to perform routine checks on their data.

As countries invest significant resources into collecting mortality data, some systematic data checks are necessary. The CoDEdit tool is applied at data compilation stage, its primary purpose is to warn and flag basic gross errors, alert about possible misuse of codes and finally provide a summary of the data set.

The tool is a MS Access-based application. The version 2.0 enables users to perform routine checks on data coded to ICD-11 as well as data coded to ICD-10.