The Life Table

Alain Bélanger and Patrick Sabourin
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Alain Bélanger: Inst nat de la recherche scientifique Urbanisation Culture Société, Urbanisation Culture Société
Patrick Sabourin: Inst nat de la recherche scientifique Urbanisation Culture Société, Urbanisation Culture Société

Chapter Chapter 2 in Microsimulation and Population Dynamics, 2017, pp 29-61 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract With the help of the Modgen wizard, we have developed and successfully run our first microsimulation program. This simple model was able to calculate life expectancy for a cohort whose risk of death remains constant throughout the simulation. For demographers, and probably for most users, this unrealistic mortality hypothesis is unsatisfactory. As a minimum, even in a simple cohort model, mortality should vary with age and sex, thus enabling us to calculate all the components of a conventional life table.

Keywords: Life Expectancy; Life Table; Split Function; Numerical Range; Curly Bracket (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44663-9_2

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