Projecting delay and compression of mortality

Projecting delay and compression of mortality

Abstract Background Although mortality delay (the shift of the age-at-death distribution to older ages) and mortality compression (less variability in the age at death) are the key dynamics that drove past mortality trends, they have seldom been included in mortality projections. Objective We compar...

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Main Authors: Anastasios Bardoutsos, Joop de Beer, Fanny Janssen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-10-01
Series:Genus
Subjects:
Mortality projections
Delay
Compression
Age-at-death distribution
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41118-018-0039-5

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