Generating age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration data: two applications of the empirical completeness method

Abstract Background The study aims to assess two approaches that apply the empirical completeness method to generate age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration systems. Methods We use the empirical completeness method to calculate all-age death registration completeness, wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tim Adair, Alan D Lopez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-06-01
Series:Population Health Metrics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-021-00262-3