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How High is Infant Mortality in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS?

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  • Gerry Redmond
  • Nadezhda Aleshina
  • UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. MONEE project

Abstract

There are worrying indications that official infant mortality counts, based on administrative data, may underestimate the true gravity of the problem in 15 countires in the CEE / CIS region, including 11 out of 12 CIS countries. However, the paper also finds that surveys are rather blunt instruments, and that the confidence intervals that surround estimates from these surveys are often large.

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  • Gerry Redmond & Nadezhda Aleshina & UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. MONEE project, 2003. "How High is Infant Mortality in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS?," Papers inwopa03/26, Innocenti Working Papers.
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    Keywords

    child mortality; infant mortality; statistical data;
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    JEL classification:

    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • P27 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - Performance and Prospects

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