On some properties of mortality rates

Valkovics, Emil (1999) On some properties of mortality rates. Hungarian Statistical Review, 77 (SN3). pp. 95-115. ISSN 0039-0690

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Abstract

The first part of the paper underlines the necessity to consider in the analysis of mortality the double nature of general age-specific mortality rates: they determine with the number and age distribution of persons exposed to the risk of dying the number and the age distribution of the deceased. An attempt is made to separate the impact of these two roles. The second part of the contribution describes the method of decomposition of the differences between the life expectancies at birth (and at higher ages) elaborated and used in the Demographic Research Institute of the HCSO, based on the evidence that the life expectancy at birth may be defined, among others, as the mean age of all the deceased of the life table and this mean age is equal to the weighted arithmetic mean of the mean ages of victims of different causes of death.

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