Results and observations from the reconstruction of continuous time series of mortality by cause of death: Case of West Germany, 1968-1997.

Though many countries have been collecting cause-of-death information from death certificates for more than a century, these valuable data sources remain underexplored. This is certainly due in part to the frequent revisions of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), which have caused br...

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Main Author: Marketa Pechholdova
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2009-10-01
Series:Demographic Research
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Online Access:http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol21/18/