chmort: Calculates childhood mortality rates based on survey data.

In DHS.rates: Calculates Demographic Indicators

Description

chmort returns childhood mortality rates such as the Neonatal Mortality Rate (NNMR), Post-neonatal Mortality Rate (PNNMR), Infant Mortality Rate (IMR), Child Mortality Rate (CMR), and Under-5 Mortality Rate (U5MR) chmort returns the Standard Error (SE), mortality exposure (N), weighted exposure (WN), Design Effect (DEFT), Relative Standard Error (RSE), and Confidence Interval (CI).

Usage

chmort(
  Data.Name,
  JK = NULL,
  CL = NULL,
  Strata = NULL,
  Cluster = NULL,
  Weight = NULL,
  Date_of_interview = NULL,
  Date_of_birth = NULL,
  Age_at_death = NULL,
  PeriodEnd = NULL,
  Period = NULL,
  Class = NULL
)

Arguments

Data.Name	The DHS births (BR) dataset or data from other survey with the same format.
JK	"Yes" to estimate Jackknife SE.
CL	Confidence level to calculate the Confidence Coefficient Z of the Confidence Intervals; default if 95.
Strata	Stratification variable if other than "v022".
Cluster	Sample cluster variable if other than "v021".
Weight	Survey weight variable if other than "v005".
Date_of_interview	Date of Interview (CMC) variable if other than "v008".
Date_of_birth	Child date of birth (CMC) variable if other than "b3".
Age_at_death	Child age at death (in months) variable if other than "b7".
PeriodEnd	The end of the exposure period in YYYY-MM format; default is the date of the survey.
Period	The study period for mortality in months; default is 60 months (5 years).
Class	Allow for domain level indicators.

Value

Childhood mortality rates (NNMR, PNNMR, IMR, CMR, and U5MR), and precision indicators (SE, RSE, and CI).

Author(s)

Mahmoud Elkasabi.

Examples

# Calculate five-year children mortality rates based on ADBR70 data

data("ADBR70")
chmort(
 ADBR70,
 JK = "Yes"
)

# Calculate ten-year children mortality rates based on ADBR70 data

data("ADBR70")
chmort(
 ADBR70,
 JK = "Yes",
 Period = 120
)

# The exposure period ends in June 2011

data("ADBR70")
chmort(
 ADBR70,
 PeriodEnd = "2011-06"
)

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