Interpretation of Vital Statistics
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The field of vital statistics is as open to investigation, analysis and experimentation as it was three hundred years ago when John Graunt (1620 -1674) introduced the observations on the London Bills of Mortality. The research possibilities are sometimes overlooked by statisticians and demographers because the registration systems now established in developed countries seem routinized and sterile. Also, in developing countries where vital statistics registration systems are yet a century or more away the focus has been on survey techniques and surveillance systems with their own special problems and methods of analysis.
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