Estimation of Adult Mortality from Widowhood Information

M. Kabir
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M. Kabir: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

The Pakistan Development Review, 1977, vol. 16, issue 2, 208-219

Abstract: Most of the developing countries of the third world, either have an inadequate or virtually no vital registration system. The data collected from the population censuses in these countries are defective. In this situation it is hardly possible to measure mortality directly. So demographers have tried to develop indirect methods in order to overcome this problem. A widely known indirect method of estimating adult mortality is the Orphanhood method developed by Brass and Hill [5J. The method has been applied to a wide range of the populations in the developing regions particularly several Mrican and Latin American countries, and has been found to yield a reasonable level of adult mortality.

Date: 1977
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