In the past thirty years, more than 100 censuses gathered fertility data through questions on women’s date of last birth. The standard “births last year” (BLY) approach for such data truncates timing ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Under some assumptions a stochastic model for describing the variation in the length of open birth intervals of a women has been developed for ...

International organizations, research institutions, insurance companies, pension funds and health policymakers calculate human mortality measures from life tables. Life-table data, though, are usually ...