Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
June 1, 2008
Abstract:
Will the UK's aging population be fit and independent, or suffer from greater chronic ill health? Life expectancy of healthy people represents the expected number of years of healthy well-being that a life-table cohort would experience if age-specific rates of mortality and disability prevailed throughout the cohort's lifetime. Robust estimation of this life expectancy is thus essential for examining whether additional years of life are spent in good health and whether life expectancy is increasing faster than the decline of rates of disability. The paper examines a means of generating estimates of life expectancy for people who are healthy and unhealthy for the UK that are consistent with exogenous population mortality data. The method takes population transition matrices and adjusts these in a statistically coherent way so as to render them consistent with aggregate life-tables.
Published in
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)
Volume
Volume: 171 (1):203-222
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00497.x
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