What can we learn from indirect estimations on mortality in Mongolia, 1969-1989?

The closure of Mongolia to international community during the 20th century resulted in a dearth of available data and analytic demographic studies. In the absence of mortality analysis during the socialist period, this paper proposes the use of indirect census-based techniques to estimate mortality...

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Main Author: Thomas Spoorenberg
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Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2008-04-01
Series:Demographic Research
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Online Access:http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol18/10/
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spelling doaj-d58618edd97040d6a9c0a6d5de9d63f32020-11-24T21:23:21ZengMax Planck Institute for Demographic ResearchDemographic Research1435-98712008-04-011810What can we learn from indirect estimations on mortality in Mongolia, 1969-1989?Thomas SpoorenbergThe closure of Mongolia to international community during the 20th century resulted in a dearth of available data and analytic demographic studies. In the absence of mortality analysis during the socialist period, this paper proposes the use of indirect census-based techniques to estimate mortality levels and trends of the last two socialist decades (1969-89). Due to census data quality and choice of model life table, results are not homogeneous. The respective effects of these two components are discussed in order to understand the results. However, despite these shortcomings, it is shown that during the last socialist decades in Mongolia, the health conditions of the population deteriorated. The Mongolian pattern is relatively similar to the situation documented for the ex-socialist republics. Causes to this similarity are discussed.http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol18/10/census dataintercensal estimatesMongoliamortality measurementmortality trendssocialist period
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What can we learn from indirect estimations on mortality in Mongolia, 1969-1989?
Demographic Research
census data
intercensal estimates
Mongolia
mortality measurement
mortality trends
socialist period
author_facet Thomas Spoorenberg
author_sort Thomas Spoorenberg
title What can we learn from indirect estimations on mortality in Mongolia, 1969-1989?
title_short What can we learn from indirect estimations on mortality in Mongolia, 1969-1989?
title_full What can we learn from indirect estimations on mortality in Mongolia, 1969-1989?
title_fullStr What can we learn from indirect estimations on mortality in Mongolia, 1969-1989?
title_full_unstemmed What can we learn from indirect estimations on mortality in Mongolia, 1969-1989?
title_sort what can we learn from indirect estimations on mortality in mongolia, 1969-1989?
publisher Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
series Demographic Research
issn 1435-9871
publishDate 2008-04-01
description The closure of Mongolia to international community during the 20th century resulted in a dearth of available data and analytic demographic studies. In the absence of mortality analysis during the socialist period, this paper proposes the use of indirect census-based techniques to estimate mortality levels and trends of the last two socialist decades (1969-89). Due to census data quality and choice of model life table, results are not homogeneous. The respective effects of these two components are discussed in order to understand the results. However, despite these shortcomings, it is shown that during the last socialist decades in Mongolia, the health conditions of the population deteriorated. The Mongolian pattern is relatively similar to the situation documented for the ex-socialist republics. Causes to this similarity are discussed.
topic census data
intercensal estimates
Mongolia
mortality measurement
mortality trends
socialist period
url http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol18/10/
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