Estimating age- and sex-specific mortality rates for small areas with TOPALS regression: an application to Brazil in 2010
Abstract High variability in recorded vital events creates serious problems for small-area mortality estimation by age and sex. Many existing approaches to fitting local mortality schedules, including those most often used in Brazil, estimate rates by making rigid mathematical assumptions about loca...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Estudos Populacionais
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| Series: | Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-30982016000300629&lng=en&tlng=en |