Excess mortality statistics in the pandemic and country comparisons - presentation

Abstract:

Outline:

• Why is it important to examine excess mortality data?
• How is excess mortality measured? Who measures it?
• Key issues for comparing rates of excess mortality across/within nations.
• Considering the comparability of statistical measures of excess mortality.
• Why the age distribution matters.
• What can we learn comparing P-scores from the European ‘all ages’ data?
• Excess mortality for other European age groups: ‘15-64’ and ‘85+’.
• Data and models
• Our own work in this area:

  A pandemic primer on excess mortality statistics and their comparability across countries - Our World in Data blog post

  A pdf version is available here.