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Generating age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration data: two applications of the empirical completeness method

BACKGROUND: The study aims to assess two approaches that apply the empirical completeness method to generate age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration systems. METHODS: We use the empirical completeness method to calculate all-age death registration completeness, which is...

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Autores principales: Adair, Tim, Lopez, Alan D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8186206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34098975
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12963-021-00262-3
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description BACKGROUND: The study aims to assess two approaches that apply the empirical completeness method to generate age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration systems. METHODS: We use the empirical completeness method to calculate all-age death registration completeness, which is used with a model life table to generate mortality statistics and age-specific completeness using (1) the conventional method and (2) the equivalent deaths method. The results are compared with a capture-recapture (C-RC) study and three alternative mortality estimates for Brazilian states, and C-RC studies in Thailand, Oman and Vietnam, which independently estimate the level and age pattern of mortality or completeness. RESULTS: The empirical completeness method produces similar estimates of all-age completeness of registration to the C-RC studies. Compared with C-RC studies, at 15-59 years, the conventional method’s estimates of mortality and completeness are more concordant, while at 60-84 years the equivalent death method’s estimates are closer. Estimates of life expectancy from the two approaches each have similar concordance with the C-RC studies. For male adult mortality in Brazilian states, there is relatively strong average correlation of this study's estimates with three alternative estimates. CONCLUSIONS: The two approaches produce mortality statistics from incomplete data that are mostly concordant with C-RC studies, and can be most usefully applied to subnational populations. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12963-021-00262-3.
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spelling pubmed-81862062021-06-10 Generating age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration data: two applications of the empirical completeness method Adair, Tim Lopez, Alan D Popul Health Metr Research BACKGROUND: The study aims to assess two approaches that apply the empirical completeness method to generate age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration systems. METHODS: We use the empirical completeness method to calculate all-age death registration completeness, which is used with a model life table to generate mortality statistics and age-specific completeness using (1) the conventional method and (2) the equivalent deaths method. The results are compared with a capture-recapture (C-RC) study and three alternative mortality estimates for Brazilian states, and C-RC studies in Thailand, Oman and Vietnam, which independently estimate the level and age pattern of mortality or completeness. RESULTS: The empirical completeness method produces similar estimates of all-age completeness of registration to the C-RC studies. Compared with C-RC studies, at 15-59 years, the conventional method’s estimates of mortality and completeness are more concordant, while at 60-84 years the equivalent death method’s estimates are closer. Estimates of life expectancy from the two approaches each have similar concordance with the C-RC studies. For male adult mortality in Brazilian states, there is relatively strong average correlation of this study's estimates with three alternative estimates. CONCLUSIONS: The two approaches produce mortality statistics from incomplete data that are mostly concordant with C-RC studies, and can be most usefully applied to subnational populations. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12963-021-00262-3. BioMed Central 2021-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8186206/ /pubmed/34098975 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12963-021-00262-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Generating age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration data: two applications of the empirical completeness method
title Generating age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration data: two applications of the empirical completeness method
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title_fullStr Generating age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration data: two applications of the empirical completeness method
title_full_unstemmed Generating age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration data: two applications of the empirical completeness method
title_short Generating age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration data: two applications of the empirical completeness method
title_sort generating age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration data: two applications of the empirical completeness method
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8186206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34098975
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12963-021-00262-3
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