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[[Mortality estimation using proportional mortality indicators for developing countries]].

M Katsuno
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The author extends a technique for the indirect estimation of mortality originally developed by Courbage and Fargues. The technique is applied to national data from 35 developing countries for the year 1975. "Nine families of model life tables constructed by Coale and Demeny and the United Nations were applied to each of the object populations, and the level of mortality corresponding to the value of PMI (proportional mortality indicator: percentage of deaths at the ages 50 years and over) obtained from death registration data, was determined for each family." The author notes that the technique does not require assumptions regarding features of the population in question and is applicable to a non-stable population or an open population without any adjustment. (SUMMARY IN ENG)

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DemographyDeveloping CountriesFamily CharacteristicsForecastingLife TablesMethodsModels, TheoreticalMortalityPopulationPopulation DynamicsResearchStatistics as TopicDemographic AnalysisDemographic FactorsEstimation TechnicsFamily And HouseholdIndirect Estimation TechnicsLife Table MethodMathematical ModelMethodological StudiesPopulation ProjectionResearch MethodologyEnglish AbstractJournal Article

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M Katsuno. 1988. [[Mortality estimation using proportional mortality indicators for developing countries]].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12315342/

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