Volume 51 - Article 9 | Pages 229–266
Data errors in mortality estimation: Formal demographic analysis of under-registration, under-enumeration, and age misreporting
By Carl Schmertmann, Bernardo Lanza Queiroz, Marcos Gonzaga
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