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Re: UNDER FIVE MORTALITY [message #15066 is a reply to message #14764] Tue, 29 May 2018 17:32 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Trevor-DHS is currently offline  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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