MortPak - The United Nations Software Package for Mortality Measurement
MORTPAK is a software package for demographic measurement in developing countries, with special emphasis on mortality measurement. The software provides 20 applications in the areas of population projection, life-table and stable-population construction, graduation of mortality data, indirect mortality estimation, indirect fertility estimation, and other indirect procedures for evaluating age distributions and the completeness of censuses. The package incorporates techniques that take advantage of the United Nations model life tables and generalized stable population equations. Version 4.3 is available for MS Windows and is free for download.
- Mortpak 4.3 software: and use the setup.exe program to install the software on your computer. A new program group called MORTPAK4 will be created with a link to the software and PDF manual installed on your computer.
- Mortpak 4.3 manual: The MortPak manual is no longer available in printed form. It is made available below in electronic form in Adobe PDF format.
Related references:
- Demographic Manual X (Indirect techniques for demographic estimation)
- Step-by-Step Guide to the Estimation of Child Mortality
- Model Life Tables
- MortPak: The United Nations Software Package for Mortality Measurement (Batch-oriented Software for the Mainframe Computer) 鈥� include Fortran source code and technical details