dc.contributor.author | Adienge, Sigar E | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-05-21T13:56:30Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-05-21T13:56:30Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1987 | |
dc.identifier.citation | A thesis submitted to the population studies and research institute as partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of master of arts (population studies), university of Nairobi | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/24208 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study is concerned with investigating the
accuracy of Brass estimates under conditions where mortality
schedules are known or suspected to have been declining in the
recent past. To achieve this task, three techniques suited for
a changing mortality condition have been applied: namely,
Additive Hypothetical Synthetic procedure; Kraly-Norris procedure
and Palloni's technique. These techniques are applied at
National, Provincial and District levels.
The investigation is divided into five chapters.
Chapter I deals majorly with historical development of the
problem we set out to investigate. Chapter II deals with the
intercostal mortality estimation between the period(1969-L979).
Additive synthetic technique, a procedure suited for fluctuating
mortality schedule is used. Chapter 1 deal
Kraly-Norris simulation process for a declining mortality
conditions. Chapter IV deals with yet another technique suited
for a declining condition of mortality:Palloni's model. Chapter
V deals with a summary of the findings, conclusions and
recommendations.
The mortality level estimated from Indirect procedure
employing Additive hypothetical synthetic procedure behaves
exactly the way they would be expected excatly under declining
conditions of mortality. The violation of the static assumption
of mortality brings inconsistency and unreliability in the estimates. Errors emanating from such a violation showed that
they (the errors) ascended strictly monotonically by childhood
age. Kraly-Norris procedure and Palloni's both yielded results
which are superior to those obtained form unadjusted values
( i.e Using constant assumption of mortality schedules). | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.title | Estimation of infant and childhood mortality in Kenya when mortality conditions are declining: evidence from 1969 and 1979 censuses. | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
local.publisher | Institute of population Studies and research | en |