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Re: UNDER FIVE MORTALITY [message #15066 is a reply to message #14764]

Tue, 29 May 2018 17:32

Trevor-DHS
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The DHS Program uses a very different approach to the calculation of mortality rates than the method you tried. DHS uses a synthetic cohort life table method and produces estimates for the five years or ten years preceding the survey. See the Guide to DHS Statistics for more details of the approach.

The approach you have used has a few limitations:
1) It does not appear to limit the time period of interest at all.
2) It appears to be using single years of age for the age of the children. In contrast the synthetic cohort life table method uses groups of 0, 1-2, 3-5, 6-11, 12-23, 24-35, 36-47 months.

I haven't tried using syncmrates, so I can't comment on the accuracy of those estimates.

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		UNDER FIVE MORTALITY By: rajesh.dahima91@gmail.com on Thu, 15 March 2018 01:05
		Re: UNDER FIVE MORTALITY By: rajesh.dahima91@gmail.com on Fri, 13 April 2018 07:38
		Re: UNDER FIVE MORTALITY By: habib on Wed, 25 April 2018 04:56
		Re: UNDER FIVE MORTALITY By: rajesh.dahima91@gmail.com on Wed, 25 April 2018 07:52
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		Re: UNDER FIVE MORTALITY By: rajesh.dahima91@gmail.com on Thu, 26 April 2018 02:10
		Re: UNDER FIVE MORTALITY By: Liz-DHS on Thu, 03 May 2018 14:38
		Re: UNDER FIVE MORTALITY By: rajesh.dahima91@gmail.com on Fri, 04 May 2018 00:30
		Re: UNDER FIVE MORTALITY By: Trevor-DHS on Tue, 29 May 2018 17:32
		Re: UNDER FIVE MORTALITY By: Trevor-DHS on Tue, 29 May 2018 19:06
		Re: UNDER FIVE MORTALITY By: Trevor-DHS on Tue, 29 May 2018 19:20
		Re: UNDER FIVE MORTALITY By: rajesh.dahima91@gmail.com on Wed, 30 May 2018 01:53
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