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Memorandum on the Age Tables and Rates of Mortality of the Indian Census of 1901

1905

The object of these specimen schedules was primarily as stated above to obtain a measure of the extent of the disturbance in the age statistics caused by the heaping up of the numbers at the quinquennial ages and in the second place to obtain information as to the age distribution above age 60. [...] Gait with reference to the Bengal tables but applying to the whole of the Indian figures is the relatively small number of children returned as aged 1 to 2. In most of the provinces with the important exception of Burma and the Central Provinces -7 the numbers returned at this age are very much below those returned at the adjacent ages 0 to 1 and 2 to 3. In Bombay and Bengal for example the n [...] The following table will then show the extent to which the incorporation of the emigrant with the home population modifies the age distrbution of the latter the modified figures being used in lieu of those in Table C as the basis of the graduated age tables :- TABLE II. [...] The population tables might also enable us to attempt some correction of the ages given in the returns of registered deaths if we could safely make the assumption that the nature and extent of the errors in the statements of age for the purpose of death registration are similar to those of the errors in the census returns. [...] From the estimated defect in the number of registered deaths for the decennium in the principal provinces as given in Table IV combined with the known rate of increase of the population during the past ten years an estmate may be made of the birth-rate for the period.
government politics public policy
Pages
71
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100010
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Memorandum on the Age Tables and Rates of Mortality of the Indian Census of 1901
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