The Life Table

1. Front Matter

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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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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.

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