From the Director's desk
Dear CE-DAT friends,
CRED wishes you a happy, productive and peaceful New Year 2009. In this eighth newsletter, the CE-DAT team has chosen to look into the trends from 2008 compared to the previous years. While methodological issues around mortality needs to widen its horizons, CRED would like to learn more and more from other disciplines and compare those used by epidemiologists, demographers, forensic anthropologists, statisticians, sociologists and political scientists. All use different tools to estimate mortality. It is time to bring all of these different threads together and learn from each other. This was one of the objectives of the symposium organized in November 2008, from which you will find some conclusion in this newsletter. Regarding methodological issues, CRED also analyzed issues of survey quality and reporting. During two expert group meetings (EGM), checklists were prepared aiming at enhancing the way in which surveys are reported. Finally, two members of our staff, Ruwan and Antonio, are leaving us to pursue new challenges. They will be replaced by new staff that we will introduce to you shortly.
Should you have any comments or questions, please feel free to contact us.
Thanks for your continued support !
Debby Sapir, Director