Calculating fertility and childhood mortality rates from survey data using the DHS.rates R package

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Research Article

Calculating fertility and childhood mortality rates from survey data using the `DHS.rates` R package

Mahmoud Elkasabi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICF, The Demographic and Health Surveys Program, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Child health
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Children
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Age groups
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Surveys
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