Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using orphanhood and year of death data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study

The overall objective of this research is to investigate whether using year of death data to produce estimates of time location is a better approach than the method developed by Brass and Bamgboye (1981) and whether estimates of mortality produced using year of death data are any better than those d...

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Main Author: Kupamupindi, Takura
Other Authors: Dorrington, Rob
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10793
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spelling ndltd-netd.ac.za-oai-union.ndltd.org-uct-oai-localhost-11427-107932020-10-06T05:11:43Z Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using orphanhood and year of death data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study Kupamupindi, Takura Dorrington, Rob Demography The overall objective of this research is to investigate whether using year of death data to produce estimates of time location is a better approach than the method developed by Brass and Bamgboye (1981) and whether estimates of mortality produced using year of death data are any better than those derived using the conventional orphanhood method. 2014-12-31T20:02:32Z 2014-12-31T20:02:32Z 2010 Master Thesis Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10793 eng application/pdf University of Cape Town Faculty of Commerce Centre for Actuarial Research (CARE)
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Kupamupindi, Takura
Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using orphanhood and year of death data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study
description The overall objective of this research is to investigate whether using year of death data to produce estimates of time location is a better approach than the method developed by Brass and Bamgboye (1981) and whether estimates of mortality produced using year of death data are any better than those derived using the conventional orphanhood method.
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Kupamupindi, Takura
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title Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using orphanhood and year of death data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study
title_short Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using orphanhood and year of death data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study
title_full Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using orphanhood and year of death data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study
title_fullStr Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using orphanhood and year of death data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study
title_full_unstemmed Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using orphanhood and year of death data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study
title_sort estimating adult mortality in south africa using orphanhood and year of death data from the 2008 national income dynamics study
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