Mortality inequality in populations with equal life expectancy: Arriaga's decomposition method in SAS, Stata, and Excel

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Auger, Nathalie ^a,b   Feuillet, Pascaline ^c   Martel, Sylvie ^a   Lo, Ernest ^a,d   Barry, Amadou D ^a   Harper, Sam ^d  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Demography; Inequality; Life expectancy; Mortality; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLADDER CANCER; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHUS CANCER; CANADA; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EMPHYSEMA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLE; LIFE TABLE METHOD; LIP CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORTALITY; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; PANCREAS CANCER; PHARYNX CANCER; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER; SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME; TRACHEA CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 84905081951     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: 18732585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2014.05.006     Document Type: Article

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