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closeWeekly death figures from the EUROSTAT database is incomplete
Posted by mschwartzerdt on 11 Oct 2021 at 20:53 GMT
You extracted the death figures from the EUROSTAT database “Population (Demography, Migration And Projections)”. Please be aware that the subset demo_r_mwk_20 for Sweden is undercounting Swedish deaths. Just compare the total for 2020 from this subset (96,950) to the official SCB data (98,124). You can check the data at Population statistics (https://www.scb.se/en/fin...) You can find the Excel file here: https://www.scb.se/en/fin...
Look at the World Mortality Dataset comments to the issue: "Sweden has a significant number of deaths which occurred in an "unknown" date (and thus week) in all years. However, 95% these have a known month of death. In order to account for this, we have adjusted the daily number of deaths in Sweden by the difference between monthly deaths from daily deaths and total monthly deaths, and the residual with unknown month, distributed throughout the year. For example, the sum of daily deaths in April 2020 is 10376. The total monthly deaths in April 2020 is 10555, which yields a daily mean difference of 5.97 added to each day in April 2020. The 254 additional deaths in 2020 with unknown month, were distributed uniformly across months and then daily within each month. Thus, each day in April 2020 is increased by 6.67 deaths."
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