Average age at death in infancy and infant mortality level: Reconsidering the Coale-Demeny formulas at current levels of low mortality
<b>Background</b>: The long-term historical decline in infant mortality has been accompanied by increasing concentration of infant deaths at the earliest stages of infancy. In the mid-1960s Coale and Demeny developed formulas describing the dependency of the average age of death in infan...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
2015-08-01
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| Series: | Demographic Research |
| Online Access: | http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol33/13/ |