| dc.description.abstract | As in most developing cOQ~tries, mortality data
In Kenya has often been said to be inaccurate and incomplete.
particular registration of deaths, has not been developed
to the extent that it covers every death which occurs.
Therefore, levels and trends of mortality in Kenya have
been learned through the widespread adoption or indirect
methods of estimating demographic parameters from limited
data.
In this study, four "Indirect" methods of 11l0rtality
estimation have been derived, discussed and
applied to the IT.mortality data in Kenya in order to estimate
the level of mortality which prevailed in the
country in 1979. Three of the four methods of analysis
namely:
I) The Bennett-Horiuchi Method of estimat ing the
completeness of death registration;
II) The Bennett-Horiuchi Method of constructing
life Tables from Lncomp.Le t e death registration
data;
and III) The Preston Cenu, s-based Method of constructing .
life tables; are generalizations of the stable population theory, and,
unlike the previous indirect methods which used a constant
population growth rate in the estimation of mortality
the three methods use age specific population growth
rates. | en |
