Vital Statistics and Census Tract Data Used to Evaluate Family Planning

Mining California Vital Statistics Data

Vital statistics data offer a fertile ground for data mining. In this paper, we discuss the results of a data mining project on the causes of death aspect of the vital statistics data in the state of California. A data mining tool called Cubist is used to build predictive models out of two million cases over a nine-year period. The objective of our study is to discover knowledge that can be use...

Consistent correction of census and vital registration data.

A new procedure is developed for simultaneously and consistently correcting 2 or more censuses and intercensal registered births and deaths. The procedure begins with a set of preliminary correction factors, which are not necessarily consistent. It then uses the mathematics of finite-dimensional vector spaces to derive an optimal set of final consistent correction factors. The optimization p...

Estimating Black-White Mortality Differences by State of Birth Using Census and Vital Statistics Data: A Simple GMM Approach

Demographers are often confronted with the task of forming estimates by combining separate data sources. We propose a generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator for such cases, and use the approach to estimate mortality using data from the U.S. Census and from Vital Statistics. Specifically, the GMM approach allows us to credibly estimate old-age mortality rates by race, gender, birth State,...

Family planning and access to safe and legal abortion are vital to safeguard the environment.

Mining Census and Geographic Data in Urban Planning Environments

Urban planning is a knowledge-intensive activity. It acquires useful knowledge by analysing jointly socio-economic data and topographic maps. When supported by computers, this preliminary information gathering triggers a knowledge discovery process, which often consists of exploratory data analysis tasks. Advances in georeferencing have caused among the other things a growing demand for more po...