An evaluation of truncated birth histories for the rapid measurement of fertility and child survival

Abstract Background Full birth histories (FBHs) are a key tool for estimating fertility and child mortality in low- and middle-income countries, but they are lengthy to collect. This is not desirable, especially for rapid turnaround surveys that ought to be short (e.g., mobile phone surveys). To red...

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Main Authors: Bruno Masquelier, Ashira Menashe-Oren, Georges Reniers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-07-01
Series:Population Health Metrics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12963-023-00307-9