Swanson Publishes Research Article in Asian Population Studies on Infant Mortality in the Philippines
Posted: 9/5/2024 (CSDE Research)
CSDE Affiliate David Swanson (UC Riverside) recently published the research article, “Estimating the stochastic uncertainty underlying sample-based estimates of infant mortality in the Philippines: a first-time application to a country in the Southeast Asia/Pacific Basin region” in Asian Population Studies. When making health policy decisions, infant mortality is a very important population health statistic that is taken into account, but unfortunately this data is not available for all populations. A newly-developed method was “presented for accounting for the stochastic uncertainty found in infant mortality rates (IMRs) estimated from sample surveys and for the first time applied to a country in the Southeast Asian/Pacific Basin area, the Philippines. The method is founded on the fact that there are two sources of variation in sample-based estimates of IMRs: (1) sample size; and (2) variation of infant deaths. The approach is aimed at taking into account stochastic uncertainty while preserving the information concerning the uncertainty due to sampling. In applying the method to the Philippines, the sample-based IMR estimates appear to perform well in terms of accounting for stochastic uncertainty.” To learn more about this research, visit the link to read the rest of Dr. Swanson’s article.