Death distribution methods for estimating adult mortality: Sensitivity analysis with simulated data errors

TThe General Growth Balance (GGB) and Synthetic Extinct Generations (SEG) methods have been widely used to evaluate the coverage of registered deaths in developing countries. However, relatively little is known about how the methods behave in the presence of different data errors. This paper applies...

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Main Authors: Kenneth Hill, Danzhen You, Yoonjoung Choi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2009-08-01
Series:Demographic Research
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Online Access:http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol21/9/