Laboratory

Demographic Data

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Project

Human Cause-of-Death Database

Conducted by Dmitri A. Jdanov; Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, Inna Danilova, Domantas Jasilionis, Pavel Grigoriev; in Collaboration with France Meslé, Jacques Vallin, Arianna Caporali, Svitlana Ponyakina (all: French National Institute for Demographic Studies, Paris, France), Markéta Pechholdová (University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic)

The Human Cause-of-Death Database (HCD) provides access to coherent series of cause-specific mortality. It contains mortality data classified into three lists: short, intermediate, and full causes of death. The main goal is to document trends in cause-specific mortality.  Detailed Description

Publications

Grigoriev, P.; Pechholdová, M.:

Health convergence between East and West Germany as reflected in long-term cause-specific mortality trends: to what extent was it due to reunification?

European Journal of Population 33:5, 701–731. (2017)    

Remund, A.; Camarda, C. G.; Riffe, T.:

A cause-of-death decomposition of the young adult mortality hump

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2017-007. (2017)    

Timonin, S. A.; Danilova, I. A.; Andreev, E. M.; Shkolnikov, V. M.:

Recent mortality trend reversal in Russia: are regions following the same tempo?

European Journal of Population 33:5, 733–763. (2017)    

Grigoriev, P.; Meslé, F.; Vallin, J.:

Reconstruction of continuous time series of mortality by cause of death in Belarus, 1965–2010

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2012-023. (2012)