the survival is around 50%
Your conclusion is far more precise than your data. "Around 50%, doesn't allow for equations like "So, 0.684 - (0.15/2) = .609/100 = 6.09/1,000". That and other ways that your post is lacking give me no confidence in your adjustment in even this very narrow area.
But the more important issue is that your presenting this one adjustment as if it was the only factor and it isn't.
Infant mortality rank of 29 remains after the data is adjusted for all those factors.
You don't provide any adjustment for all the factors, and I supposed to take your word for it?
Other countries don't count <500g
Other countries don't count <26wks
Other countries don't count <very small length.
What you fail to understand is that listing these separate is quite deceptive. They are all the same set.
Very large overlap, but not exactly the same thing. All three added together amount to very slightly larger set than each one separately. And measuring things in different ways makes the adjustments more complex.
More importantly they don't amount to "all factors". Not even all factors in terms of how different countries measure infant mortality, let alone all of those, plus all factors that influence actual infant mortality however measured.
The first category includes things like -
"Some of the countries reporting infant mortality rates lower than the U.S. classify babies as “stillborn” if they survive less than 24 hours whether or not such babies breathe, move, or have a beating heart at birth.
Forty percent of all infant deaths occur in the first 24 hours of life.
In the United States, all infants who show signs of life at birth (take a breath, move voluntarily, have a heartbeat) are considered alive.
If a child in Hong Kong or Japan is born alive but dies within the first 24 hours of birth, he or she is reported as a “miscarriage” and does not affect the country’s reported infant mortality rates."
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The 2nd category includes things like the fact that we have more teen mothers in the US. It also includes economic, social/cultural, and genetic differences. |
