A Decomposition Analysis of Differences in Length of Life in the Czech Republic

David Morávek () and Jitka Langhamrová ()
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David Morávek: Prague University of Economics and Business, Department of Demography, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics
Jitka Langhamrová: Prague University of Economics and Business, Department of Demography, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics

Chapter Chapter 14 in Quantitative Methods in Demography, 2022, pp 219-228 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Nowadays, mortality is improving in almost every population. Life expectancy at birth for men and women has increased significantly over the last few decades, mainly due to a decrease of infant mortality. For the period from 1920 to 2018 in Czechia, the life expectancy at birth has increased by 29.1 years for males and by 32.1 years for females. Except for life expectancy characterizing the average length of life, the further use of the median and the modal ages at death is common. The characteristics of human length of life are based on a computation of life tables. In a population, it approximately holds true that the average length of life is lower than the median length of life, which is lower than the modal length of life. Differences in life expectancy by age and sex is computed using the decomposition method.

Keywords: Lengths of life; Life expectancy; Mortality; Life tables; Decomposition method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-93005-9_14

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