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Life Table Construction

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Life Table Construction

A book about Demography

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Ibrahim bin Ashraf
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Life Table Construction

Sample Life Table Data

Age # # Prop nx lx dx qx Tx ex Years


Category deaths surviving (lx) Log 10
0-5 8 160 1.0 1000 0 50 0.05 6317 6.32 32
6-10 7 152 0.95 950 -0.02 40 0.04 5317 5.59 28
11-15 13 145 0.91 910 -0.04 85 0.09 4367 4.80 24
16-20 9 132 0.83 825 -0.08 56 0.07 3457 4.19 21
21-25 13 123 0.77 769 -0.11 81 0.11 2632 3.42 17
26-30 21 110 0.69 688 -0.16 132 0.19 1863 2.71 13.5
31-35 23 89 0.56 556 -0.25 143 0.26 1175 2.11 10.5
36-40 39 66 0.41 413 -0.39 244 0.59 619 1.50 7.5
41-45 22 27 0.17 169 -0.77 138 0.82 206 1.21 6
46-50 4 5 0.03 31 -1.51 25 0.81 37 1.19 6
51-55 1 1 0.006 6 -2.22 6 1.0 6 1 5
56-60 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 0
TOTAL 160 6317

x = Age interval (e.g. 1 year, 0-5 years, etc)


nx = Number alive at the beginning of the age interval x
lx = Proportion alive at the beginning of age interval x
dx = Number dying during age interval x
qx = Mortality rate during age interval x (i.e., qx = dx / nx)
ex = Expectation for further life of an individual of age x
bx = The number of female offspring produced per female of age x
Procedures

1. Calculate the age at death for each individual


2. Place individuals into 5-year age categories (separate tables for males and females).
The first category should be 0-5 and so on.
3. Determine the number of deaths in each age category.
4. Determine the number of individuals surviving from birth. Start by placing a 0 in the
lowest box of the column. To determine the next box up, add to the 0 the number
of deaths that appears to the left and 1 column up. The top box in this column
should be the number of tombstones counted.
5. Determine lx – the proportion alive at the start of age interval x. The first box should
be 1.0. The second box = # surviving / Total.
6. Standardize the life table per 1000 to allow for comparisons of life tables.
nx = lx (1000) for each age category.
7. Calculate the Log10 of lx for each time interval. This data will be used to graph
survivorship curves.
8. Calc ulate dx for each age category. dx = nx – nx+1
9. Calculate qx for each age category qx = dx / nx
10. You are now ready to calculate the expectation for further life. In order to do this you
must first construct a column called Tx , the sum of all the nx ’s up to that age
category. So, Tx (0-4) would be the total of the entire nx column. Tx (5-9) = Tx (0-4) -
nx(0-4) and so on.
11. You can now calculate expectation for future life for each age category as follows,
ex = tx / nx
12. Note that ex is expressed in the number of age categories of additional life expected.
Since each age category spans 5 years, you simply multiple each ex by 5 To convert
this value to years.
Age # # Prop nx lx dx qx Tx ex Years

Category deaths surviving (lx) Log 10

TOTAL

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