Adult Mortality From Sibling Survival Data: A Reappraisal of Selection Biases.
Because of incomplete registration of deaths in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, data on the survival of close relatives constitute the cornerstone of estimates of adult mortality. Since 1990, sibling histories have been widely collected in Demographic and Health Surveys and are increasingly be...
| Publicado en: | Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 207 - 229 |
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