Overcoming the limitations of demographic data: papers on mortality, extreme aged populations and education

• Autor(a) principal: Marília Regina Nepomuceno
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/33345
• topic: East–West mortality gap; Cohort mortality; Decomposition; Education; Brazil; Census; Data quality; Age misreporting; Centenarians; Adult mortality; Old-age mortality; Variable-r; Demografia; Censo demografico; Mortalidade; Brasil; Idosos

One of the basic tasks in demography is to produce reliable estimates. To do that, demographers require high data quality or being able to detect and correct errors. Unfortunately, in most countries data are deficient and is it necessary to be critical about the reliability of the available information. Therefore, this dissertation deals with data quality issues that are related, directly or indirectly, with survival analysis. We divided this study into three articles. The first one focuses on cohort mortality analysis in the absence of complete cohort mortality data, using the Truncated Cross-sectional Average Length of Life (TCAL). The second study examines data quality issues among the oldest-old population, focusing on the estimation of centenarians. The third article evaluates education reporting among adults in order to offer evidences of education misstatement. All the articles provide alternative ways to minimize the lack of complete cohort mortality data or the existence of inaccurate data.