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A Method for Small-Area Estimation of Population Mortality in Settings Affected by Crises

2021-06-07

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Populations affected by crises (armed conflict, food insecurity, natural disaster) are poorly covered by demographic surveillance. As such, crisis-wide estimation of population mortality is extremely challenging, resulting in a lack of evidence to inform humanitarian response and conflict resolution. Methods We describe here a ‘small-area estimation’ method to circumvent th...

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DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-558991/v1

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