Assessing the Comparability of Mortality Statistics

Improving the comparability of diabetes mortality statistics in the U.S. and Mexico.

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to increase the cross-state comparability of diabetes mortality statistics related in the U.S. and Mexico. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We used multinomial logistic regression to estimate the effects of individual and community factors on a death for which diabetes was recorded as one of the multiple contributing causes of death (MCD) being assigned to diabe...

Assessing the Comparability of News Texts

Comparable news texts are frequently proposed as a potential source of alignable sub-sentential fragments for use in statistical machine translation systems. But can we assess just how potentially useful they will be? In this paper we first discuss a scheme for classifying news text pairs according to the degree of relatedness of the events they report and investigate how robust this classifica...

Comparability of ICD-10 and ICD-9 for Mortality Statistics in Canada

The production and presentation of statistics of unemployment: comparability issues

The United Nations publishes unemployment statistics for 123 countries. Most of these statistics are based on International Labour Office (ILO) criteria for the definition of unemployment. Many countries also produce unemployment statistics based on insurance records and on the basis of registered unemployment. This paper aims to compare the main features of the different methods. The dimension...

Differences among official statistics of mortality rates in Iran

Dear Editor, Death indicators and causes of death are both closely associated with socio-cultural, economic, and structural factors and determinants of health, with all of which being at the core of the planning, monitoring, and assessment of intervention programs in any healthcare system (1). In Iran, the diagnosis and official registration of deaths are carried out by two independent organiz...