New birth cohort life tables for Canada and Quebec, 1801-1991 / by Robert Bourbeau, Jacques Légaré [and] Valérie Émond.
- Title
- New birth cohort life tables for Canada and Quebec, 1801-1991 / by Robert Bourbeau, Jacques Légaré [and] Valérie Émond.
- Published by
- Ottawa : Statistics Canada, Demography Division, 1997.
- Author
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- Description
- viii, 94 p.; 28 cm.
- Summary
- For historical reasons, the best known life tables and those most often used are period tables. They are built using death rates by age for a short period of observation (often a single year) and have as their purpose to represent the status of mortality for this period. The survivors and deaths appearing in their columns are in a way abstractions rather than reality. It is thus erroneous to believe that the life table for a given year (for example, 1995) serves in any way whatever to predict the rate at which those born that year will pass away and, hence, of the average length of the life that they have just begun. With rare exceptions, the average number of years lived by individuals has always been longer than the life expectancy found in the life table constructed for the year of their birth. This is due to the fact that period tables are established using the risks of death by age prevailing in that year. But the ceaseless battle against death reduces these risks year after year for these ages and, by growing older, people benefit from these successive gains. To reconstitute (or foresee) the rate at which the members of a cohort have (or will) really pass away, it is necessary to deploy very long series of death rates by age and to possess reliable indicators of missing data, and then to adjust them to establish the actual experience of the persons in a cohort. Built in exactly the same way as period tables, these tables are naturally called cohort tables, but comparing observations of their parameters yields conclusions of a different kind.
- Series statement
- Current demographic analysis. Demographic document ; no.3
- Uniform title
- Current demographic analysis. Demographic document ; no.3.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- vital statistics records.
- Vital statistics
- Statistics
- Statistiques.
- Statistiques de l'état civil.
- Contents
- Table of contents: Part 1. Introduction -- part 2. Data sources and methodology -- part 3. How to use the tables -- part 4. Summary of findings -- part 5. Birth cohort life tables -- part 6. Period life tables -- Bibliography -- Table -- Figure.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Note
- Issued also in French under title: Nouvelles tables de mortalité par génération au Canada et au Québec, 1801-1991.
- "Catalogue no. 91F0015MPE."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-94).
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain