An adjustment brought about or made due to (a) death, e.g.

"How are the birth/death adjustment amounts calculated?

During the net birth/death modeling process, simulated monthly probability estimates containing continuous and imputed employment over a 5-year period are created and compared with population employment levels that contain actual business births and deaths along with the continuous units."

ref. http://www.bls.gov/ces/cesmetho.htm#16

This Belgian site also contains some relevant information:

http://fiscus.fgov.be/interfakrednl/_PGB/datanl.htm#De mutat...