Evaluation of U.S. Mortality Patterns at Old Ages Using the Medicare Enrollment Data Base

We evaluate the consistency of age-specific mortality patterns for older Americans using the Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA's) Medicare Enrollment Data Base (EDB), a data set that includes over 30 million records. To do this, we compare the mortality curves across regions wit...

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Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 1999-07-01
Series:Demographic Research
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Online Access:http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol1/2/