Surface Plots of Rates of Mortality Improvement

Roland Rau, Christina Bohk-Ewald, Magdalena M. Muszyńska and James W. Vaupel
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Roland Rau: University of Rostock, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences
Christina Bohk-Ewald: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Magdalena M. Muszyńska: Warsaw School of Economics, Collegium of Economic Analysis
James W. Vaupel: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Chapter Chapter 6 in Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram, 2018, pp 43-67 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Surface maps of unsmoothed and smoothed mortality data have been used widely before. In this chapter, we present surface plots of rates of mortality improvement (“ROMI”), which are the derivative of age-specific mortality with respect to time. They have been introduced rather recently. By showing a large set of surface maps for countries from the Human Mortality Database, we argue that those ROMI plots are better able to detect period and cohort effects than standard mortality surface maps.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-64820-0_6

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