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Algorithm for decomposition of differences between aggregate demographic measures and its application to life expectancies, healthy life expectancies, parity-progression ratios and total fertility rates

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2002
A general algorithm for the decomposition of differences between two values of an aggregate demographic measure in respect to age and other dimensions is proposed.
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Life Expectancy in Nigeria

open access: yes, 2019
This research entitled Life Expectancy in Nigeria, will take a holistic view of life expectancy: what it means, its consequences and possible causes.
Chigbo, Caroline Nwamaka
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Die-by Framing both Lengthens and Shortens Life: Further Evidence on Constructed Beliefs in Life Expectancy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Decisions regarding consumption over the lifespan require some estimate of how long that lifespan is likely to be. Payne et al. (2013) found that respondents' estimates of their own life expectancy are on average 8.6 years shorter when elicited using a ...
Robinson, Jenny   +3 more
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Changing impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy 2019–2023 and its decomposition: Findings from 27 countries

open access: yesSSM: Population Health
Background: The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 no longer a global health emergency on 5th May 2023; however, the impact of COVID-19 on life expectancy throughout the pandemic period is not clear.
Guogui Huang   +8 more
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Does Physical Activity Increase Life Expectancy? A Review of the Literature

open access: yesJournal of Aging Research, 2012
Physical activity reduces many major mortality risk factors including arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus type 2, dyslipidemia, coronary heart disease, stroke, and cancer.
C. D. Reimers, G. Knapp, A. K. Reimers
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An integrated approach to cause-of-death analysis: cause-deleted life tables and decompositions of life expectancy [PDF]

open access: yes
This article integrates two methods that analyze the implications of various causes of death for life expectancy. One of the methods attributes changes in life expectancy to various causes of death; the other method examines the effect of removing deaths
Samuel Preston   +2 more
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Modelling life expectancy in Turkey

open access: yes
This study is concerned with understanding the factors of life expectancy in Turkey for the period 1965-2005. The determinants of life expectancy in Turkey are related to selected social, economical and environmental factors.
Halicioglu, Ferda
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Life Expectancy at Current Rates vs. Current Conditions

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2002
Life expectancy is overestimated if mortality is declining and underestimated if mortality is increasing. This is the fundamental claim made by Bongaarts and Feeney (2002) in their article "How Long Do We Live?", where they base their claim on arguments ...
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Inequalities in US Life Expectancy by Area Unemployment Level, 1990–2010

open access: yesScientifica, 2016
This study examined the association between unemployment and life expectancy in the United States during 1990–2010. Census-based unemployment rates were linked to US county-level mortality data.
Gopal K. Singh, Mohammad Siahpush
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