The formal demography of kinship V: Kin loss, bereavement, and causes of death.

ABSTRACT: The death of kin has psychological, physical, and economic effects on other members of a kinship network. Recently developed formal demographic models provide the deaths of kin, of any kind, at any age of a Focal individual. However, causes of death have yet to be accounted for. Our objective is to extend the matrix kinship model to analyze losses of kin by cause of death, given age-specific schedules of risk due to each cause. The projection matrix is enlarged to include multiple absorbing states representing the age at death and the cause of death of kin at each age of Focal. The fertility matrix is enlarged to include production of living kin and set births by dead kin to zero. The model provides deaths experienced at each age and accumulated up to each age of Focal, by cause of death a

SUBMITTER: Caswell H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12369935 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature