Estimating intercensal age schedules by intracohort interpolation

Popul Index. 1988 Summer;54(2):209-24.

Abstract

"This paper describes a procedure for estimating intercensal age schedules of rates of occurrence of demographic events (birth, death, marriage) from tabulations at two points in time of a status of the population (average children ever born, persons surviving, proportion ever married) classified by age." The procedure is called iterative intracohort interpolation. The paper describes a more general version than that originally developed by Ansley J. Coale and provides a probabilistic interpretation of the age-specific rates estimated by the procedure.

MeSH terms

  • Age Factors*
  • Cohort Studies
  • Demography
  • Fertility*
  • Marriage*
  • Methods*
  • Mortality*
  • Population
  • Population Characteristics*
  • Population Dynamics
  • Research
  • Statistics as Topic*