Calculating fertility and childhood mortality rates from survey data using the DHS.rates R package.

ABSTRACT: 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 err

SUBMITTER: Elkasabi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6534308 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature