{"id":31,"date":"2014-08-28T09:29:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T14:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/cdha\/latinmortality\/?page_id=31"},"modified":"2020-03-26T10:53:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T15:53:50","slug":"methods","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/cdha\/latinmortality2\/?page_id=31","title":{"rendered":"Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; transition: font-size 0.5s ease-in-out, left 0.7s ease-in-out, right 0.7s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: font-size 0.5s ease-in-out, left 0.7s ease-in-out, right 0.7s ease-in-out; color: #5a5a5a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">This data base contains (a) census and vital statistics information on population size (starting in 1841) and death counts (starting in 1900) and up to 2014 for 19 countries; (b) life tables (every five and ten years) adjusted for undercount and for adult age misstatement by five and single year age groups (using 85 and 100 as open age groups); (c) mortality rates by causes of deaths (unadjusted and adjusted for completeness, age misstatement and ill-defined causes of death) starting in 1945, associated single decrement, and multiple decrement life tables; and (d) reconstructed (estimated) cohort life tables for birth cohorts born from 1850 onward.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10px; transition: font-size 0.5s ease-in-out, left 0.7s ease-in-out, right 0.7s ease-in-out; -webkit-transition: font-size 0.5s ease-in-out, left 0.7s ease-in-out, right 0.7s ease-in-out; color: #5a5a5a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>UPDATE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A full explanation of the methods used to adjust the data and produce the time series of life tables contained in this website is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/cdha\/latinmortality\/wp-content\/uploads\/LAMBdA_documentation.pdf\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<br \/>\nThe documentation shows an extensive study of simulated data, application of well-known and well-tested methods of indirect estimation as well as new methods to adjust for age misreporting.<br \/>\nThere is an additional publication that summarizes key methodologies employed throughout, see this <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/cdha\/latinmortality\/wp-content\/uploads\/AdultMortalityinLatinAmer_Caribbean.pdf\">book chapter<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This data base contains (a) census and vital statistics information on population size (starting in 1841) and death counts (starting in 1900) and up to 2014 for 19 countries; (b) life tables (every five and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-31","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/cdha\/latinmortality2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/cdha\/latinmortality2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/cdha\/latinmortality2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/cdha\/latinmortality2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/cdha\/latinmortality2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/cdha\/latinmortality2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/cdha\/latinmortality2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/cdha\/latinmortality2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}