A New Method for Correcting Underestimation of Disabled Life Expectancy and an Application to the Chinese Oldest-Old.
This article demonstrates that disabled life expectancies that based on conventional multistate life-table methods are significantly underestimated because of the assumption of no changes in functional status between age x and death. We present a new method to correct the bias and apply it to data f...
| Publicado en: | Demography Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 335 - 362 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
May 2004
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