A new technique to estimate infant mortality with an application for El Salvador and Colombia
- 1 August 1979
- journal article
- Published by Duke University Press in Demography
- Vol. 16 (3) , 455-473
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2061225
Abstract
The paper presents new estimates of infant mortality for Colombia and El Salvador for the years 1950–1970. These estimates are obtained by using a technique which improves on Brass’s method in that it suppresses the assumption of constant mortality and introduces instead assumptions about linear and nonlinear changes in mortality risks affecting various cohorts of individuals.Keywords
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