Estimation of older-adult mortality from information distorted by systematic age misreporting.
Popul Stud (Camb)
; 75(3): 403-420, 2021 11.
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ABSTRACT
Testing theories about human senescence and longevity demands accurate information on older-adult mortality; this is rare in low- to middle-income countries where raw data may be distorted by defective completeness and systematic age misreporting. For this reason, such populations are frequently excluded from empirical tests of mortality and longevity theories, thus limiting their reach, as they reflect only a small and selected human mortality experience. In this paper we formulate an integrated method to compute estimates of older-adult mortality when vital registration and population counts are defective due to inaccurate coverage and/or systematic age misreporting. The procedure is validated with a simulation study that identifies a strategy to compute adjustments, which, under some assumptions, performs quite well. While the paper focuses on Latin American and Caribbean countries, the method is quite general and, with additional information and some model reformulation, could be applied to other populations with similar problems.
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Projetos de Pesquisa
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Mortalidade
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Prognostic_studies
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Adult
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Humans
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En
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Popul Stud (Camb)
Ano de publicação:
2021
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Article