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Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using orphanhood and year of death data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study

The overall objective of this research is to investigate whether using year of death data to produce estimates of time location is a better approach than the method developed by Brass and Bamgboye (1981) and whether estimates of mortality produced using year of death data are any better than those d...

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Main Author: Kupamupindi, Takura
Other Authors: Dorrington, Rob
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Centre for Actuarial Research (CARE) 2014
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Demography
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description The overall objective of this research is to investigate whether using year of death data to produce estimates of time location is a better approach than the method developed by Brass and Bamgboye (1981) and whether estimates of mortality produced using year of death data are any better than those derived using the conventional orphanhood method.
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10793 Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using orphanhood and year of death data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study Kupamupindi, Takura Dorrington, Rob Demography The overall objective of this research is to investigate whether using year of death data to produce estimates of time location is a better approach than the method developed by Brass and Bamgboye (1981) and whether estimates of mortality produced using year of death data are any better than those derived using the conventional orphanhood method. 2014-12-31T20:02:32Z 2014-12-31T20:02:32Z 2010 Master Thesis Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10793 eng application/pdf Centre for Actuarial Research (CARE) Faculty of Commerce University of Cape Town
spellingShingle Demography
Kupamupindi, Takura
Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using orphanhood and year of death data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study
thesis_degree_str Master's
title Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using orphanhood and year of death data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study
title_full Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using orphanhood and year of death data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study
title_fullStr Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using orphanhood and year of death data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study
title_full_unstemmed Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using orphanhood and year of death data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study
title_short Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using orphanhood and year of death data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study
title_sort estimating adult mortality in south africa using orphanhood and year of death data from the 2008 national income dynamics study
topic Demography
url http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10793
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