Abstract

Our results represent an expansion of direct knowledge of levels and trends in adult mortality in the developing world. The CSS method provides grounds for renewed optimism in collecting sibling survival data. We suggest that all nationally representative survey programs with adequate sample size ought to implement this critical module for tracking adult mortality in order to more reliably understand the levels and patterns of adult mortality, and how they are changing. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary.

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SiblingDemographyRecall biasLogistic regressionPublic healthMortality rateMedicinePessimismSurvey data collectionGerontologyEnvironmental healthPsychologyStatistics

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2010
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article
Volume
7
Issue
4
Pages
e1000260-e1000260
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112
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Ziad Obermeyer, Julie Knoll Rajaratnam, Chang Park et al. (2010). Measuring Adult Mortality Using Sibling Survival: A New Analytical Method and New Results for 44 Countries, 1974–2006. PLoS Medicine , 7 (4) , e1000260-e1000260. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000260

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