Death Distribution Methods
The distribution of deaths by age and the distribution of the population by age are linked via growth rates in various identities that provide a basis for consistency checks. The simplest relationship is that proposed by Brass (1975) for a stable population in his Growth Balance Equation:


Hill (1987) has extended the method to be applicable to a non-stable (but closed) population using data from two censuses, and observed growth rates:


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Methods using the Distribution of Deaths by Age
A group of methods have been developed and refined that seek to measure the completeness of recorded deaths (whether by a vital registration system or by retrospective questions in a census or survey about household deaths) relative to population counts. The early methods (Brass, 1975; Preston et al., 1980) relied on the strong assumption that the underlying population was demographically stable. Later methods relaxed this assumption to require only that the population be closed to migration or that age-specific migration rates be known (Bennett and Horiuchi, 1984; Hill, 1987). These methods use mathematical models of population age distributions to relate the age pattern of deaths to the age pattern of the population in such a way that the completeness of death registration can be estimated. The key assumption underlying these methods is that recording of deaths (after childhood) should not vary with age.

The Brass (1975) and Hill (1987) methods estimate the completeness of age recording by comparing an observed death rate for the population aged x and over to a residual estimate obtained by subtracting the growth rate of the population aged x and over from an estimate of the entry rate into the population aged x and over, both obtained from the population age distribution. I refer to these methods as “Growth Balance” (GB) methods. The more flexible Hill method (which uses data from two censuses and does not assume that the population is stable) estimates both the completeness of coverage of deaths relative to population enumerations and the possible change in coverage between two census enumerations. The Preston et al. (1980) and Bennett and Horiuchi (1984) methods use population growth rates above age x to expand recorded deaths over age x to estimate the number of deaths over age x in the corresponding stationary population; completeness of death recording is then estimated by comparing the population aged x to the sum of stationary population deaths above age x. I will refer to these methods as “Synthetic Extinct Generations” (SEG) methods. The more flexible Bennett and Horiuchi method (which also uses data from two censuses and does not assume that the underlying population is stable) estimates the completeness of coverage of deaths relative to the populations, but is sensitive to changes in census coverage



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