The Construction of Mortality And Sickness Tables a Primer
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This completes the calculation of the rates of mortality from census data, and we may conclude the chapter by summarising the method adopted : 1. Set out the population from two censuses and the deaths for the period between the two censuses in the age groups available. 2. Calculate the mean population for the total population. 3. Calculate the mean population for each age group, so that the mean population for the total populations found in (2) is re- produced. 4. Spread out the mean populatio...n and the deaths so as to give particulars for each age. 5. Calculate the rate of mortality at each age by assuming that it is equal to the deaths divided by mean population plus half the deaths. CENSUSES AND DEATH REGISTERS 69 6. For the early ages, instead of using (4) and (5), calculate the exposed to risk by trac- ing the children born, and adjust the results to make them agree with the mean population. The rate of mortality is the deaths divided by adjusted exposed to risk. An alternative method is sometimes used with satisfactory results when the population is not subject to violent fluctuations, and consists of working on a single census, and the deaths for, say, three years (see p.
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