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  • Title: A new method of estimating infant and child mortality from data on children ever born and children surviving.
    Author: Pathak KB, Ram F, Singh BS.
    Journal: Janasamkhya; 1988 Dec; 6(2):159-68. PubMed ID: 12282255.
    Abstract:
    This paper proposes a method to estimate infant and childhood mortality from the data on children ever born and children surviving by age of the mother without using any model life table. Further in this procedure, actual age-specific fertility rates of the population have been used rather than the model fertility schedules. The method is illustrated with the data for India and some selected states. The estimate of 1 to the 5th power obtained by using this procedure is slightly higher than that obtained using Brass techniques. For most of the states and India, the estimates of the infant mortality rate are close to the other estimates.
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