Calculating fertility and childhood mortality rates from survey data using the DHS. rates R package
Calculating fertility and childhood mortality rates from survey data using the DHS. rates R package
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0216403
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发表时间：
2019-05-24
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3.7
通讯作者：
Elkasabi, Mahmoud
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作者：
Elkasabi, Mahmoud
人口和健康调查 (DHS) 是发展中国家许多人口和健康指标的主要来源。尽管这些指标在文献中有明确的定义，但使用调查数据来计算其中一些指标对于数据用户来说从来都不是一件容易的事。本文介绍了国土安全部。 rates 软件是一个用户友好的 R 软件包，开发用于根据 DHS 数据计算生育指标，例如总生育率、一般生育率和分年龄生育率，以及儿童死亡率指标，例如新生儿死亡率、新生儿死亡率、婴儿死亡率、儿童死亡率和 5 岁以下死亡率。该一揽子计划考虑到国家和地方指标。此外，该软件包还计算每个人口统计指标的标准误差、设计效果、相对标准误差和置信区间等抽样误差指标。该软件包还可用于计算其他人口调查（例如多指标类集调查（MICS））中的相同指标。
The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) are a major source for many demographic and health indicators in developing countries. Although these indicators are well defined in the literature, using survey data to calculate some of these indicators has never been an easy task for data users. This paper presents the DHS. rates software, a user-friendly R package developed to calculate fertility indicators, such as the total fertility rate, general fertility rate, and age-specific fertility rates, and childhood mortality indicators, such as the neonatal mortality rate, post-neonatal mortality rate, infant mortality rate, child mortality rate, and under-5 mortality rate, from the DHS data. The package allows for national and subnational indicators. In addition, the package calculates sampling error indicators such as standard error, design effect, relative standard error, and confidence interval for each demographic indicator. The package can also be used to calculate the same indicators from other population surveys such as the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS).