Crude death rates in the U.S.S.R.: Comment on Grandstaff's remarks: A Rejoinder

My appraisal of death rates in the U.S.S.R. goes beyond the question whether a simple correlation really measures what the critic purports to measure. Normally, the crude death rates depend upon the age structure and the force of mortality. If one persists in assuming that a reasonably high correlat...

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Published in:Population studies 1972-07, Vol.26 (2), p.319-320
Main Author: Mazur, D. Peter
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age structure
Birth rates
Censuses
Death/Deaths (see also Mortality, Dying)
Demography
Demography/Demographic/ Demographical
Estimation methods
Mortality
Population estimates
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/USSR (see also Russia, Soviet)
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Summary:My appraisal of death rates in the U.S.S.R. goes beyond the question whether a simple correlation really measures what the critic purports to measure. Normally, the crude death rates depend upon the age structure and the force of mortality. If one persists in assuming that a reasonably high correlation between the official death rates and their independent estimates should be the main criterion of validity, the best technique will be to relate the proportion of persons aged 60 and over to the official death rates recorded for some 109 observations. The force of mortality would be approximately reflected by a given proportion of survivors to the first or second year of age. But in the 1959 Soviet Census the latter data had been concealed within the 0 to 9 age group, possibly for no other reason than to prevent the curious few from tinkering with infant mortality.
ISSN:0032-4728
1477-4747
DOI:10.1080/00324728.1972.10405554