title: A method of estimating adult mortality trends from widowhood and death distribution data.
abstract: "This paper is an attempt to find a procedure for estimating past trends in the rate of decline of adult mortality [using] data collected during a census or a single sample survey.  It indirectly focuses on trends in adult death rates by looking at proportions not-widowed by age-groups and changes in these proportions caused by diminishing death rates.  An equation has been developed which expresses the proportion not-widowed of the ever-married population in an age-group as a function of the current level of mortality in the population, a first marriage frequency distribution, and the past rate of mortality decline."  The technique is applied to data from the 1974 Bangladesh Retrospective Survey of Fertility and Mortality.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mahmud
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001208:Asia; D001459:Bangladesh; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D015993:Life Tables; D008136:Longevity; D017533:Marital Status; D008393:Marriage; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009026:Mortality; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D015996:Survival Rate; D017805:Widowhood
keywords: Adult; Age Factors; Age Specific Death Rate--changes; Asia; Bangladesh; Death Rate; Demographic Analysis; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Estimation Technics; Length Of Life; Life Table Method; Marital Status; Marriage; Marriage Patterns; Mathematical Model; Models, Theoretical; Mortality--changes; Nuptiality; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Southern Asia; Survivorship; Widowed