Official population statistics and the Human Mortality Database estimates of populations aged 80+ in Germany and nine other European countries

Demographic Research

Volumn 13, Issue , 2005, Pages 335-362

  Jdanov, Dmitri A ^a   Scholz, Rembrandt D ^a   Shkolnikov, Vladimir M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age aging; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 28344450840     PISSN: 14359871     EISSN: 14359871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.14     Document Type: Article

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