Weighting Sub-Populations in Longevity Inequality Research: A Practical Approach

Adam Szulc

No 2017-029, KAE Working Papers from Warsaw School of Economics, Collegium of Economic Analysis

Abstract: The weights allowing calculation of life expectancy for a whole population as a weightedaverage of group-specific life expectancies are proposed. They are characterized by aminimum distance from the actual population shares that are different from those assumed inlife tables. It is demonstrated how they may be obtained by means of constrained regression,using popular statistical/econometric software. The problem of negative solutions is alsoaddressed. The empirical examples include longevity inequality calculations under variousweighting systems. The data come from the Human Mortality Database and from Russia'sregional statistics.

Keywords: life expectancy; inequality; weighted indices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I14 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2017-09
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DOI: 10.33119/kaewps2017029

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