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The multistate life table (MSLT) can be used to properly describe, in a single analysis, these complex transitions among multiple states measured in such data, but MSLT is rarely applied in the demographic literature because practical guidance is lacking on how to compute MSLTS with such data. We provide methods for computing MSLT quantities using censored event-history data: namely, transition intensities and probabilities, \u201cstate occupancy\u201d probabilities and standard errors, average time spent in specified states, and average number of visits to specified states. 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