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An assessment of the feasibility of using administrative data in producing mid-year population estimates for South Africa

Author: Hlabano, Mbongeni Charles Date: 2015 The production of mid-year population estimates is an important undertaking which informs various stakeholders in policy formation and decision making. For instance, national governments use mid-year estimates to allocate seats in parliament ... Read more
Assessment of the IGME methods of estimating infant mortality rate and neonatal mortality rate from under-five mortality rate in countries affected by HIV

Author: Ayalew, Kassahun Abere Date: 2012 This study assesses the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) methods of estimating the infant and neonatal mortality rates from the under-five mortality rates in countries affected by HIV/AIDS. It uses Botswana, Malawi ... Read more
Assessment of the robustness of recent births in estimating infant mortality using multi-country Demographic Health Survey data

Author: Munjoma, Malvern Date: 2014 This dissertation investigates the robustness of recent births in estimating infant mortality rates from the proportion of deaths observed among births reported in a 24month period. The Blacker Brass technique is applied to all births reported ... Read more
Child and adult mortality in Zimbabwe, 1980-2005

Author: Marera, Double-Hugh Date: 2011 This research applies direct and indirect methods to data from censuses and Demographic and Health Surveys to derive empirical estimates of the level and trends of child and adult mortality in Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2005. Read more
Child mortality in South Africa - we have lost touch

Author: Bradshaw, Debbie ; Dorrington, Rob Date: 2007 Reducing child mortality is, appropriately, one of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for reducing poverty and inequality in the world. The target for this goal is to reduce child mortality by 2015 by two-thirds of the rate in 1990. ... Read more
Completeness of death registration in Cape Town and its health districts, 1996-2004

Author: Zinyakatira, Nesbert Date: 2007 It is important for health planners to have timeous and accurate data on deaths. The Department of Home Affairs is responsible for the registration of deaths and the City of Cape Town has a well-established system of collating the death ... Read more
The construction of a price index for the South African Medical Scheme Industry

Author: Ramjee, Shivani Date: 2010 A methodology is proposed for constructing a price index that reflects the change in the prices of the goods and services purchased by medical schemes in South Africa. The methodological choices were made taking cognisance of the unique ... Read more
Does the 2008 HSRC survey indicate a turning tide of HIV prevalence in children, teenagers and the youth?

Author: Dorrington, Rob Date: 2009 Recently the HSRC released its report on the results of its third and most recent household prevalence survey. The main conclusion of their analysis is that “some solid progress has been made in the fight against the disease in the past few ... Read more
The effect of HIV on the orphanhood method of estimating adult female mortality

Author: Kramer, Stephen Date: 2009 The orphanhood method of estimating adult mortality is widely used in developing countries. The method is subject to a number of assumptions, some of which are violated when a generalized high-prevalence HIV epidemic is present. Non-independence ... Read more
The effect of HIV/AIDS on the own child-method of estimating child mortality : Lesotho and Zimbabwe

Author: Musariri, Herbert Date: 2011 This study evaluates the overall impact of the bias due to HIV/AIDS on the own-child method of estimating child mortality, and the contribution of the various components to the overall bias. Indirect estimates of child mortality are calculated ... Read more
Estimates of the level and shape of mortality rates in South Africa around 1985 and 1990 derived by applying indirect demographic techniques to reported deaths

Author: Dorrington, Rob Date: 1998 This research attempts firstly to estimate both the level and shape of the mortality curve of the Black South African population group circa 1985 by the application of indirect demographic techniques to the reported deaths for Blacks for the ... Read more
Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using information on the year-of-death of parents from the 2016 Community Survey

Author: Mambwe, Chibwe Date: In developing countries, systems that collect vital statistics are usually inadequate to facilitate the direct estimation of adult mortality. This has necessitated the development of indirect methods such as the orphanhood method. These methods ... Read more
Estimating adult mortality in South Africa using orphanhood and year of death data from the 2008 National Income Dynamics Study

Author: Kupamupindi, Takura Date: 2010 The overall objective of this research is to investigate whether using year of death data to produce estimates of time location is a better approach than the method developed by Brass and Bamgboye (1981) and whether estimates of mortality ... Read more
Estimating the level and trends of child mortality in South Africa, 1996-2006

Author: Darikwa, Timotheus Brian Date: 2009 The lack of reliable data for child mortality estimation since 1998 has meant that child mortality rates for South Africa have not been updated for almost ten years now. It is the overall aim of this research to explore the possibility of ... Read more
Estimating the risks in defined benefit pension funds under the constraints of PF117

Author: Mahmood, Ra'ees Date: 2017 With the issuing of Pension Funds circular PF117 in 2004 in South Africa, regulation required valuation assumptions for defined benefit pension funds to be on a best-estimate basis. Allowance for prudence was to be made through explicit ... Read more
The estimation and interpretation of adult mortality rates of African South Africans using Census 2001 data

Author: Dobbie, Mark-Ross B Date: 2009 This research develops estimates of mortality rates for adult Africans in South Africa for the twelve months preceding the census night, 9/10 October 2Q(B, using Census 2001 10% sample data. The approach used to estimate these rates follow ... Read more
Estimation of the level and trend of adult motrality in Zambia

Author: Chisumpa, Vesper Hichilombwe Date: 2010 The aim of this study is derive robust and reliable estimates of level and trend in adult mortality in Zambia. To derive the estimates of the level and trend in adult mortality, the study applies the following techniques: the Census Survival ... Read more
Evaluating the adequacy of the method of using vital registration and census data in estimating adult mortality when applied sub-provincially

Author: Chinogurei, Chido Date: 2017 In developing countries, vital registration is the best source of death data that can be used to estimate adult mortality provided they are sufficiently complete. However, they are usually insufficient for estimating mortality sub-nationally ... Read more
Flaws, approximations and uncertainties in the estimation of the exposed-to-risk

Author: Slawski, J K Date: 1991 This research analyses the theoretical basis of exposed-to-risk estimation. It defends the conventional actuarial approach against criticisms raised by Hoem (1984), and, in so doing, examines in detail the development of the actuarial ... Read more
Full life tables for South Africa from vital registration data, 2006-2008

Author: Marandu, Simon Hlomayi Date: 2011 This research derives a set of full life tables for South Africa as a whole and by population group using vital registration data for the period 2006-2008. Given that not all deaths are registered, the research assesses the level of completeness ... Read more

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