Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-mp689 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-19T16:54:18.866Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Estimation of adult mortality in Korea: levels, trends, and socioeconomic differentials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Ock-Kyung Kim
Ock-Kyung Kim
Affiliation:
Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 31 Bedford Square, London
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Summary

Data from the 1974 Korean National Fertility Survey indicate levels, trends, and socioeconomic differentials in adult mortality in the Republic of Korea. The indirect techniques of parental survival and the time location of mortality are used to estimate mortality levels and to discern time trends in adult mortality. Socioeconomic variables are considered for their relationship with levels of adult mortality. The index of household wealth (based on the ownership of modern goods, size and space of household) and education stand out as the most important differentials in adult mortality. The trend in mortality decline is most pronounced for the subgroups representing higher levels of educational attainment and greater ownership of modern goods even after adjusting for the interrelationship between these two variables.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , July 1986 , pp. 347 - 356
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Brass, W. (1971) On the scale of mortality. In: Biological Aspects of Demography. Edited by Brass, W.Taylor & Francis, London.Google Scholar
Brass, W. & Bamgboye, E. (1981) The Time Location of Reports of Survivorship: Estimates for Maternal and Paternal Orphanhood and the Ever-widowed. Working Paper No. 81–1, Centre for Population Studies, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.Google Scholar
Brass, W. & Hill, K. (1973) Estimating adult mortality from orphanhood. In: International Population Conference, 1973. IUSSP, Liege.Google Scholar
Bureau of Statistics of the Economic Planning Board and Korean Institute for Family Planning (1977) The Korean National Fertility Survey 1974. First Country Report. Republic of Korea.Google Scholar
Kim, O. (1984) Child mortality in Korea: levels, trends, and socioeconomic differentials. In: Proceedings of 9th Science and Engineering Symposium. Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies, Seoul, Korea.Google Scholar
Kim, O. (1985) Estimation of Mortality in Korea from Household Survey Data; Levels, Trends, and Differentials. PhD thesis, Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.Google Scholar