chmortp: Calculates the childhood component death probabilities based...

In DHS.rates: Calculates Demographic Indicators

Description

chmortp returns weighted childhood component death probabilities for 8 age segments 0, 1-2, 3-5, 6-11, 12-23, 24-35, 36-47, and 48-59 months chmort returns weighted and unweighted number of deaths and children-years exposure.

Usage

chmortp(
  Data.Name,
  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.
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 component death probabilities.

Author(s)

Mahmoud Elkasabi.

Examples

# Calculate childhood component death probabilities based on ADBR70 data

data("ADBR70")
chmortp(
 ADBR70
)

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