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Abstract #304040

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Activity Number: 494
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 11, 2005 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Abstract - #304040
Title: Estimation of United States Decennial Life Tables: 1999--2001
Author(s): Rong Wei*+ and Lester Curtin and Robert Anderson and Elizabeth Arias
Companies: National Center for Health Statistics and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Center for Health Statistics and National Center for Health Statistics
Address: 3311 Toledo Road Rm 3222, Hyattsville, MD, 20782, United States
Keywords: US mortality ; life expectancy ; decennial life tables ; Gompertz law
Abstract:

Every 10 years, the National Center for Health Statistics publishes the U.S. and State Life Tables for ages 0-110 by race and gender. Newly generated decennial U.S. life tables, based on the 2000 population census and mortality data for 1999--2001 will be published soon. The methodology used to generate these new tables has undergone some changes in comparison to previous decennial life tables. In this paper, we describe these changes. A modification of the Gompertz law used for modeling mortality at older ages is discussed in detail. Estimation of life table functions, including death rates, life expectancies, and survival probabilities are shown and compared with those in previous decennial tables for four race-gender populations. Estimation of standard errors of life table functions also is discussed.

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