Imputing age at death for the deceased using household relationships

Immeasurable effort has been dedicated to estimating mortality using direct and indirect demographic techniques. However, literature available on methods applied to replacing missing values for non-responses in surveys or censuses so that these methods are implemented using sound data is sparse. The...

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Main Author:	Chinanayi, Farai S
Other Authors:	Dorrington, Rob
Format:	Dissertation
Language:	English
Published:	University of Cape Town 2014
Subjects:	Actuarial Research
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10263

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spelling	ndltd-netd.ac.za-oai-union.ndltd.org-uct-oai-localhost-11427-102632020-10-06T05:11:28Z Imputing age at death for the deceased using household relationships Chinanayi, Farai S Dorrington, Rob Actuarial Research Immeasurable effort has been dedicated to estimating mortality using direct and indirect demographic techniques. However, literature available on methods applied to replacing missing values for non-responses in surveys or censuses so that these methods are implemented using sound data is sparse. The National Income and Dynamics Study (NIDS) household dataset includes the relationship of the deceased to the head of household variable. The relationship of the deceased to the head of household and the age of the head of household are incorporated into the Multiple Imputation (MI) technique proposed by Rubin (1987) to impute the missing ages at death for the deceased. 2014-12-27T14:17:39Z 2014-12-27T14:17:39Z 2011 Master Thesis Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10263 eng application/pdf University of Cape Town Faculty of Commerce Centre for Actuarial Research (CARE)
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description	Immeasurable effort has been dedicated to estimating mortality using direct and indirect demographic techniques. However, literature available on methods applied to replacing missing values for non-responses in surveys or censuses so that these methods are implemented using sound data is sparse. The National Income and Dynamics Study (NIDS) household dataset includes the relationship of the deceased to the head of household variable. The relationship of the deceased to the head of household and the age of the head of household are incorporated into the Multiple Imputation (MI) technique proposed by Rubin (1987) to impute the missing ages at death for the deceased.
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title	Imputing age at death for the deceased using household relationships
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Imputing age at death for the deceased using household relationships

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