calculate total rate based on point estimates

Usage

aggregate_maternal_estimates(estimates, ego.dat, sib.dat, only_females = TRUE)

Arguments

estimates: the output of sibling_estimator
ego.dat: the prepped ego data
sib.dat: the prepped sibling data
only_females: only keep female estimates? Defaults to TRUE; see Details, below

Value

either a tibble with the estimates aggregated across age groups OR, if there are bootstrap results, then a list with three entries:

point - the point estimates (should be the same as running w/out bootstraps)
boot_summ - estimates w/ confidence intervals calculated from bootstrap reps
boot - results for each bootstrap rep

Details

This function aggregates age-specific maternal mortality quantities like the maternal death rate or the pregnancy-related death rate. It uses the age distribution of the survey respondents as the reference population.

Note that, by default, this will only consider estimates for females aged 15-49, as this is what makes sense for aggregating maternal estimates. It might occasionally be useful to run this function for all-cause mortality; in that case, setting the parameter only_female=FALSE will include male estimates, too (but will still restrict to ages 15-49)