Chapter I contains the Introduction and review of literature. Chapter II deals with estimating infant and child mortality rates for the districts of India. Chapter III is devoted to estimate the life expectancy at birth for 2001-05. In chapter IV we seek to establish a new relationship between infant mortality and life expectancy at birth. Using this relationship, an attempt has been made to estimate life expectancy at birth for the districts of Assam and some of the districts of the states covered by the Annual Health Survey, 2010-11. In chapter V, a new method of generating one parameter...