Estimating mortality from child survivorship data: A review

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• Estimating infant mortality rates from child survivorship data by age of mother, PDF image file, 621 KB. First published paper on my method for estimating infant mortality trends from child survivorship data.
• Tabulation of census and survey data on child survivorship, PDF image file, 191 KB. When data on children ever born and surviving are used for the purpose of estimating mortality, as they very often are, the optimal tabulation procedure involves several issues that are not generally recognized. This paper explains them and provides a detailed example.
• Estimation of demographic parameters from censua and vital registration data. Contains a succinct summary of the basic result of the preceding paper on consistent linear trends.
• Estimating Infant Mortality Trends from Child Survivorship Data, 1980 Population Studies paper.
• Child survivorship estimation: Methods and data analysis. A more recent review.