Increments to life and mortality tempo

Increments to life and mortality tempo

This paper introduces and develops the idea of "increments to life." Increments to life are roughly analogous to forces of mortality: they are quantities specified for each age and time by a mathematical function of two variables that may be used to describe, analyze and model changing len...

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Main Author: Griffith Feeney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2006-01-01
Series:Demographic Research
Subjects:
adult mortality
increments to life
length of life
life expectancy at birth
mortality
mortality measurement
mortality tempo
mortality tempo adjustment
period-cohort relationships
risk of death
robustness of Bongaarts-Feeney method
tempo adjustment
Online Access:http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol14/2/

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http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol14/2/

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