Workshop on Demographic Analysis and Evaluation Mortality A

Workshop on Demographic Analysis and Evaluation

Mortality: A Spreadsheet to Adjust for Underreporting

Adjustment of Estimated m(x) Values Deaths from a census, as well as registered deaths, in many statistically less developed countries are incomplete, and under-reporting/underregistration of deaths is not the same in all ages. Frequently, underreporting/underregistration of infant deaths and deaths among children in very young ages is higher than for other ages. If a pattern of mortality is available, and if the degree of completeness of death registration by age is known, then the mortality pattern can be adjusted accordingly. The mortality pattern can be represented by a set of age-specific death rates or by probabilities of dying. 3

Adjustment of Estimated m(x) Values Spreadsheet: LTMXQXAD. xls 4

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Adjustment of Estimated m(x) Values Other possibilities: Use of MORTPAK program COMPAR or BESTFT to identify mortality pattern that best fits fragmentary data. Use of PASEX spreadsheets LTNTH, LTSTH, and LTWEST, which generate a life table given male and female populations by 5 -year age groups and a crude death rate for each sex or both sexes combined. Use of MORTPAK program MATCH to generate a life table given a regional model pattern and an index value. 6