Child mortality estimation: An assessment of summary birth history methods using microsimulation

<b>Background</b>: Two types of indirect methods for estimating child mortality rates from summary birth histories (number of children ever born and children dead) are currently available to users: model-based methods derived from the pioneering work of Brass and empirically based method...

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Main Author: Andrea Verhulst
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2016-06-01
Series:Demographic Research
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Online Access:https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol34/39/