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O Tratamento Historiográfico De Registros De Óbitos, Heitor Moura Filho Jan 2010

O Tratamento Historiográfico De Registros De Óbitos, Heitor Moura Filho

Heitor Moura Filho

This text discusses problems found in the analysis of death statistics, specially in the calculation of gross or specific mortality rates, based on incomplete demographic records, such as common in 19th- and early 20th-century Brazil.