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International Data Comparison Report

   

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Running Head: INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON OF DATA 1International Comparison of DataNameInstitutionInstructor26th September 2017
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INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON OF DATA 2IntroductionIn this report, we present a comparison of three health indicator data for three countries. Thethree countries are USA, Philippines and Burkina Faso. Data was obtained from the WorldHealth Organization database. We looked at the trends in the mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 livebirths), death rate, crude (per 1,000 people) and adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 womenages 15-19). The World Health Organization’s “Statistical Information System” is an interactivedatabase that allows you to compare health indicators for multiple countries [ CITATION Shi15 \l1033 ]. Time series data spanning from 1960 through to 2015 was used to make the comparisonsas well as the trend analysis.Comparison of Health indicatorsMortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births)The first health indicator we looked at was the mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births). Table1 below gives the descriptive statistics of the data.Table 1: Descriptive statistics on mortality rateUnitedStatesBurkinaFasoPhilippinesMean12.38111.9943.13Standard Error0.853.931.87Median10.10104.5545.75Mode6.90102.4054.40Standard Deviation6.3729.4413.97Sample Variance40.62866.67195.22Kurtosis-0.69-1.03-1.49Skewness0.830.10-0.04Range20.30100.4045.70Minimum5.6060.9022.20Maximum25.90161.3067.90Sum6936271.22415.5
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INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON OF DATA 3Count565656Confidence Level (95.0%)1.717.883.74The average mortality rate over the 56 year period for the United States was 12.38. The mortalityrate for the infants was highest in Burkina Faso having an average of 111.99. Philippines on theother hand an average mortality rate of 43.13. This shows that over the period, the US has beenperforming much better in containing the infant mortality as compared to the other two countries[ CITATION Uni14 \l 1033 ]. Figure 1: Time series trend of mortality rateThe time series plot shows that the mortality rate has been on a decline for all the three countries.However, the rate of decline has been much higher for Burkina Faso probably because they havehad a much higher rate compared to the other countries. United States on the other hand has hada very low decline rate [ CITATION Med14 \l 1033 ].
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