Death by Survey: Estimating Adult Mortality without Selection Bias from Sibling Survival Data.

The widely used methods for estimating adult mortality rates from sample survey responses about the survival of siblings, parents, spouses, and others depend crucially on an assumption that, as we demonstrate, does not hold in real data. We show that when this assumption is violated so that the mort...

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Published in:	Demography Vol. 43; no. 3; pp. 569 - 586
Main Authors:	Gakidou, Emmanuela, King, Gary
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Science & Business Media B.V. August 2006
Subjects:	Mortality > Mathematical models Siblings Family size
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