Friday, June 5 / 14:00 - 15:30 Room B

Session 78
Assessing and Improving the Quality of Mortality Data

Chair: Enrique Acosta, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

1. Producing Consistent Long-Term Time-Series of Cause-of-Death Statistics with Verbal Autopsies Lessons from the Harmonization of 25 Years of Data in the Africa Health Research InstituteAriane Sessego , INED; Siyabonga Nxumalo, Africa Health Research Institute; Dickman Gareta, Africa Health Research Institute; Alison Castle, Massachussets General Hospital; Kobus Herbst, Africa Health Research Institute.

2. Clustering mortality data over time and across countriesPedro Menezes de Araujo , University College Dublin; Isobel Claire Gormley, University College Dublin; Thomas Brendan Murphy, University College Dublin; Ugofilippo Basellini, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

3. Are Age Misreporting Patterns Universal? Evidence and Methodological Solutions for Sub-Saharan AfricaMarília Nepomuceno , Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR); Benjamin-Samuel Schlueter, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research; Yempabou Bruno Lankoande, Institut Superieur des Sciences de la Population at the Joseph Ki-Zerbo University.

4. Improving Measurement of Inequalities in Working Age Mortality and Life Expectancy using an Individual-Level Socio-Economic Index: Insights from AustraliaTim Adair , University of Melbourne; Han Li, University of Melbourne; Sergey Timonin, Australian National University; Andrew Cairns, Heriot-Watt University; Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Australian National University.

5. Aligning Historical Data: Harmonizing Under-5 Mortality Records in Türkiye across the 20th CenturySahin Bingöl , Hacettepe University Institute of Population Studies; Alanur Çavlin, Hacettepe University; Ahmet Sinan Türkyilmaz, Hacettepe University; Michel Guillot, INED.

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