A decomposition method based on a model of continuous change

Demography

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 785-801

  Shiro, Horiuchi ^a   Wilmoth, John R ^b   Pletcher, Scott D ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 59849103132     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/dem.0.0033     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Andreev, E.M., V.M. Shkolnikov, and A.Z. Begun. 2002. "Algorithm for Decomposition of Differences Between Aggregate Demographic Measures and Its Application to Life Expectancies, Healthy Life Expectancies, Parity-Progression Ratios and Total Fertility Rates." Demographic Research Vol.7, article 14:499-522. Available online at http://www.demographic-research.org/ Volumes/Vol7/14.
2. Arriaga, E.E. 1984. "Measuring and Explaining the Change in Life Expectancies." Demography 21:83-96.
3. Canudas Romo, V. 2003. Decomposition Methods in Demography. Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers.
4. Carlson, E. 2006. "Age of Origin and Destination for a Difference in Life Expectancy." Demographic Research Vol.14, article 11:217-236 Available online at http://www.demographic-research.org/ volumes/vol14/11/14-11. pdf.
5. Clogg, C.C. 1978. "Adjustment of Rates Using Multiplicative Models." Demography 15:523-539
6. Das Gupta, P. 1991. "Decomposition of the Difference Between Two Rates When the Factors Are Nonmultiplicative With Applications to the U.S. Life Tables." Mathematical Population Studies 3:105-125
7. 1993. Standardization and Decomposition of Rates: A User's Manual. (Current Population Reports, Special Studies, P23-186.) Washington, DC: U.S. Bureau of the Census.
8. 1994. "Standardization and Decomposition of Rates From Cross-Classified Data." Genus 50:171-196
9. 1999. "Decomposing the Difference Between Rates When the Rate Is a Function of Factors That Are Not Cross-Classified." Genus 55:9-26.
10. Divisia, F. 1925. "L'Indice monetaire et la theorie de la monnaie" [The price index and the theory of money]. Revue d'Economie Politique 39:980-1008.
11. Glei, D. and S. Horiuchi. 2007. "The Narrowing Sex Gap in Life Expectancy: Effects of Sex Differences in the Age Pattern of Mortality." Population Studies 61:141-159
12. Human Mortality Database (HMD). 2007. University of California, Berkeley (USA), and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany). Available online at http://www.mortality.org.
13. Keyfitz, N. 1968. Introduction to the Mathematics of Population. Reading, MA: Addision-Wesley.
14. Kitagawa, E.M. 1955. "Components of a Difference Between Two Rates." Journal of the American Statistical Association 50:1168-1194
15. Lee, R.D. and L.R. Carter. 1992. "Modeling and Forecasting U.S. Mortality." Journal of the American Statistical Association 87:659-671
16. Liao, T.F. 1989. "A Flexible Approach for the Decomposition of Rate Differences." Demography 26:717-726
17. National Center for Health Statistics. 2007. Health Data for All Ages. Available online at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/health-data-for-al-ages.htm.
18. Pletcher, S.D., A.A. Khazaeli, and J.W. Curtsinger. 2000. "Why Do Lifespans Differ? Partitioning Mean Longevity Differences in Terms of Age-Specific Mortality Parameters." Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences 55:B381-B389.
19. Pollard, J.H. 1982. "The Expectation of Life and its Relationship to Mortality." Journal of the Institute of Actuaries 109:225-240
20. 1988. "On the Decomposition of Changes in Expectation of Life and Differentials in Life Expectancy." Demography 25:265-276
21. Ponnapalli, K.M. 2005. "A Comparison of Different Methods for Decomposition of Changes in Expectation of Life at Birth and Differentials in Life Expectancy at Birth." Demographic Research Vol.12, article 7:141-172 Available online at http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol12/7.
22. Pullum, T.W., L.M. Tedrow, and J.R. Herting. 1989. "Measuring Change and Continuity in Parity Distributions." Demography 26:485-498
23. U.S. Census Bureau. 2007. 2005 American Community Survey. Available online at http://www.census.gov.acs/www.
24. Vaupel, J.W. and V. Canudas Romo. 2002. "Decomposing Demographic Change Into Direct vs. Compositional Components." Demographic Research 7:2-14.
25. 2003. "Decomposing Change in Life Expectancy: A Bouquet of Formulas in Honor of Nathan Keyfitz's 90th Birthday." Demography 40:201-216
26. Williamson, R.E., R.H. Crowell, and H.F. Trotter. 1968. Calculus of Vector Functions. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
27. Wilmoth, J.R., L. J. Deegan, H. Lundstrom, and S. Horiuchi. 2000. "Increase in Maximum Life Span in Sweden, 1861-1999." Science 289:2366-2368
28. Wilmoth, J.R. and S. Horiuchi. 1999. "Rectangularization Revisited: Variability of Age at Death Within Human Populations." Demography 36:475-495
29. Xie, Y. 1989. "An Alternative Purging Method: Controlling the Composition-Dependent Interaction in an Analysis of Rates." Demography 26:711-716