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The Life Table

Modelling Survival and Death

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  • © 2002

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Editors:
  1. Guillaume Wunsch

    1. Institute of Demography, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

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  2. Michel Mouchart

    1. Institute of Statistics, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

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  3. Josianne Duchêne

    1. Institute of Demography, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

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Part of the book series: European Studies of Population (ESPO, volume 11)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Guillaume Wunsch
    Pages 1-12

  3. The life table: A demographic overview

    • Guillaume Wunsch
    Pages 13-31

  4. The construction of life tables

    • Gérard Calot, Ana Franco
    Pages 33-78

  5. Methods of decomposition of differences between life expectancies at birth by causes of death

    • Emil Valkovics
    Pages 79-94

  6. Of entropies and inequalities: Summary measures of the age distribution of mortality

    • Jon Anson
    Pages 95-116

  7. Age, period and cohort components in analysing past and projecting future mortality trends

    • Graziella Caselli
    Pages 117-140

  8. Parameterisation as a tool in analysing age, period and cohort effects on mortality: A case study of the Netherlands

    • Ewa Tabeau, Frans Willekens, Frans van Poppel
    Pages 141-169

  9. The registration of causes of death: Problems of comparability

    • France Meslé
    Pages 171-190

  10. Gains in life expectancy by eliminating major causes of death: Revised estimates taking into account competing causes of death

    • Anton E. Kunst, Johan P. Mackenbach, Hendrika Lautenbach, Ferry B. Oei, Frans Bijlsma
    Pages 191-207

  11. The measurement of mortality by cause and of morbidity

    • Josianne Duchêne
    Pages 209-244

  12. Competing risks models: Problems of modelling and of identification

    • Michel Mouchart, Jean-Marie Rolin
    Pages 245-267

  13. Use of demographic tools in the assessment of the health level of populations

    • Emmanuelle Cambois, Jean-Marie Robine
    Pages 269-281

  14. The life table: A sociological overview

    • Jon Anson
    Pages 283-303

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 305-307
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About this book

Guillaume Wunsch, Michel Mouchart, Josianne Duchene This book is an outcome of the activities of the Working Group on Health, Morbidity, and Mortality Differentials of the European Association for Population Studies, which was chaired for some years by one of the present editors (G. Wunsch). In collaboration with the Institute of Statistics and the Institute of Demography of the University of Louvain, this Working Group held a workshop in Louvain-Ia-Neuve a few years ago on the use of life tables in Europe, taking into account problems of data collection, methods, and models. Some of the participants in the workshop were then invited by the present editors to improve, develop, or in some cases thoroughly modify their papers in order to transform them into chapters of a book on life tables. Though life tables are one of the oldest tools in demography, and every textbook on demographic methods deals with the topic of life table construction, few books have dealt with the subject in depth. It is the hope of the editors that the present volume will fulfill to some extent this need. Though primarily written by and for demographers, this book will also be of use to actuaries working in life insurance, and to epidemiologists dealing with morbidity and cause of death. Furthermore, a topic such as competing risks theory should also be of interest to statisticians.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Demography, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Guillaume Wunsch, Josianne Duchêne

  • Institute of Statistics, University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    Michel Mouchart

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