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Table 2 Data quality (completeness and validity) for the 13 descriptive variables extracted from the post-mortem reports for pigs and cattle between 2000 and 2011. The TVD number is the unique Swiss cattle identification number

From: The value of necropsy reports for animal health surveillance

 

Cattle

Pig

Cattle

Pig

 

Complete

Missing

Invalid

Complete

Missing

Invalid

% unusable entries

% unusable entries

Submission number

2862

0

0

5997

0

0

0

0

Sex

2753

109

0

5823

174

0

4

3

Age (days)

2114

549

199

4361

1471

165

27

27

Weight (kg)

2742

1

119

5888

1

108

4

2

How animal died

2786

76

0

5901

96

0

3

2

Owner name

2862

0

0

5996

1

0

0

< 1

Owner address

2611

251

0

5809

188

0

9

3

Owner address (zip code)

2847

15

0

5983

14

0

< 1

< 1

Breed

2279

583

0

NA

NA

NA

21

NA

TVD number

1604

9

1284

NA

NA

NA

80

NA