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Why so many deaths in 2000 and 2004?

Added by Stephen Clark over 10 years ago. Updated over 10 years ago.

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Start date:
10/22/2013
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Hello,

I am just starting to get to grips with the BHPS and I have a question as to why there were so many deaths recorded in 2000 and 2004. I am looking at the wIVFIO=99 variable/value in the SPSS file xwaveid.sav. The number of deaths in 2000 is 232 and in 2004 it is 293 – these values are just less than twice the usual “trend” values for neighbouring years.

On this forum I can only work out how to see new/in progress threads (14 of them) but there is a counter that suggests there are actually 190 threads. If this has been asked in one of the threads I can't get to see, I apologise. I have seen the open post by John MacInnes and his link to a discussiong paper by Lui and Weale which I shall read.

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