A short‐cut method for estimating death registration completeness in destabilized populations

This paper proposes a simple method for evaluating death registration completeness during intercensal periods. It is easier to implement than alternative methods but its main advantage is making explicit the dependence of results on the quality of readily observed demographic variables. Applications are made to data from South Korea and Argentina.

Key words:

• Mortality
• death registration
• stable population
• indirect estimation

Notes

This research was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Aging, AG06985, and by a postdoctoral fellowship to Dr. Lahiri from the Rockefeller Foundation. We are grateful to Shiro Horiuchi for comments on an earlier draft.