Quality Assessment of Demographic Data in the WHO MONICA Project

Table 1. Reporting Units considered and their Reporting Unit Aggregates (RUA) (see Section 2.1)
Country MONICA Collaborating Centre MONICA Reporting Unit RUA
Australia 10 Perth 02 Perth (inner) AUS-PERa, AUS-PERb
03 Perth (outer) AUS-PERb
11 Newcastle 01 Newcastle AUS-NEWa
02 Lake Macquarie AUS-NEWa
03 Cessnock AUS-NEWa
04 Maitland AUS-NEWa
05 Port Stephens AUS-NEWa
Belgium 12 Ghent/Charleroi 01 Ghent BEL-GHEa
02 Charleroi BEL-CHAa
14 MONICA-Bellux 01 Luxembourg BEL-LUXa
Canada 15 Halifax 01 Halifax County CAN-HALa
China 17 Sino-MONICA-Beijing 01 Beijing CHN-BEIa
Czech Republic 18 Czech-MONICA 01 Praha-vychod CZE-CZEa
02 Cheb CZE-CZEa
03 Chrudim CZE-CZEa
04 Jindrichuv Hradec CZE-CZEa
05 Benesov CZE-CZEa
06 Pardubice CZE-CZEa
Denmark 19 DAN-MONICA 01 Glostrup DEN-GLOa
Finland 20 FINMONICA 02 North Karelia FIN-NKAa
03 Kuopio County FIN-KUOa
06 Turku/Loimaa FIN-TULa
Country MONICA Collaborating Centre MONICA Reporting Unit RUA
France 54 MONICA Strasbourg 01 Bas-Rhin FRA-STRa
55 MONICA Toulouse 01 Haute Garonne FRA-TOUa
59 MONICA Lille 01 Lille FRA-LILa
Germany 23 MONICA East Germany 04 Erfurt GER-EGEa, GER-RDMd
07 Artern GER-HACa
08 Bitterfeld GER-HACa
09 Dessau GER-HACa
10 Halle-N GER-HACa
12 Sangerhausen GER-HACa
14 Zeitz GER-HACa
16 Aue GER-KMSb
17 Chemnitz GER-EGEa, GER-EGEb, GER-KMSb
19 Zwickau GER-EGEa, GER-EGEb, GER-KMSb
22 Klötze GER-RDMd
24 Oschersleben GER-RDMd
24 Bremen 01 Bremen North/West GER-BREa, GER-BREb
02 Bremen Center/South/East GER-BREb
25 Heidelberg 01 Heidelberg City GER-RHNa
04 Rhein-Neckar Region GER-RHNa
26 Augsburg 01 Augsburg Stadt GER-AUUa
02 Augsburg Land GER-AURa
Country MONICA Collaborating Centre MONICA Reporting Unit RUA
Hungary 27 HUN-MONICA 01 Budapest HUN-BUDa
02 Pecs HUN-PECa
Iceland 28 Iceland 01 Reykjavik ICE-ICEa, ICE-ICEb, ICE-ICEc
02 Arnes-county ICE-ICEa, ICE-ICEb
03 Rest of Iceland ICE-ICEb
Italy 32 MONICA-Friuli 01 Udine 1 ITA-FRIa
02 Udine 2 ITA-FRIa
03 Pordenone/Sacile ITA-FRIa
04 Gorizia ITA-FRIa
05 Monfalcone ITA-FRIa
57 Area Brianza 01 Area Brianza ITA-BRIa
Lithuania 45 Kaunas 01 Kaunas LTU-KAUa
New Zealand 33 Auckland 01 Auckland NEZ-AUCa
Poland 35 POL-MONICA-Krakow 01 Tarnobrzeg Intervention POL-TARa
02 Tarnobrzeg Control POL-TARa
36 POL-MONICA-Warsaw 01 Warsaw Praga South POL-WARa
02 Warsaw Praga North POL-WARa
Country MONICA Collaborating Centre MONICA Reporting Unit RUA
Russia 46 Moscow 01 Octyabrsky district RUS-MOCa
02 Leninsky district RUS-MOIa, RUS-MOIb
03 Cheremushkinsky district RUS-MOIb
47 Siberian MONICA 01 Octyabrsky district RUS-NOIa
03 Kirowsky district RUS-NOCa, RUS-NOCb
04 Leninsky district RUS-NOCb
Spain 39 MONICA-Catalonia 03 Area 6+10 SPA-CATa
Sweden 40 GOT-MONICA 01 Gothenburg SWE-GOTa
60 Northern Sweden 01 Västerbotten County SWE-NSWa
02 Norrbotten County SWE-NSWa
Switzerland 50 MONICA-Switzerland 01 Vaud/Fribourg SWI-VAFa
03 Ticino SWI-TICa
UK 34 Belfast 01 Belfast UNK-BELa
37 Scottish MONICA 01 Glasgow UNK-GLAa
USA 43 Stanford 01 City 1 USA-STAa
02 City 2 USA-STAa
03 City 3 USA-STAa
04 City 4 USA-STAa
Yugoslavia 49 Novi Sad 01 Novi Sad YUG-NOSa
Country MONICA Collaborating Centre MONICA Reporting Unit RUA