Mortality Developments in Greece from the Cohort Perspective

Konstantinos N. Zafeiris (), Anastasia Kostaki and Byron Kotzamanis
Additional contact information
Konstantinos N. Zafeiris: Democritus University of Thrace, Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, Department of History and Ethnology
Anastasia Kostaki: Athens University of Economics and Business, Laboratory of Stochastic Modelling and Applications, Department of Statistics, School of Information Studies and Technology
Byron Kotzamanis: University of Thessaly, Laboratory of Demographic and social analyses (Lads), Department of Planning and Regional Development, School of Engineering

Chapter Chapter 11 in Demography of Population Health, Aging and Health Expenditures, 2020, pp 151-167 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Mortality developments in Greece have been analyzed and discussed with the aid of period data. However, any relevant studies from the cohort perspective are absent. Such studies are of great importance because period analysis, and analogously the estimation of the relevant life expectancies, can give a distorted picture of the real temporal trends of longevity when analyzing mortality changes. Tempo and cohort effects, as well as other agents like selection, are responsible for this phenomenon. Taking these into consideration, period life table data were used separately for the male and female population in order to obtain one-year probabilities of death for any birth cohort formed in Greece after the 1930s. Afterwards, partial life expectancies and the expected years lost between birth and several other ages were calculated for each of them. The results of the analysis are indicative of the mortality transition observed in Greece in the last 57 years and give a clear picture of the existing gender differences during this transition.

Keywords: Mortality; Cohort analysis; Partial life expectancy; Expected years lost (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:ssdmcp:978-3-030-44695-6_11

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783030446956

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-44695-6_11

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().