Age Exaggeration Ruses: Infrequent Age Overstatement Distorts the Mortality Curve at Old Age

Ediev, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7503-5142 (2022). Age Exaggeration Ruses: Infrequent Age Overstatement Distorts the Mortality Curve at Old Age. In: Quantitative Methods in Demography. Eds. Skiadas, C.H. & Skiadas, C., pp. 189-205 Cham, Switzerland: Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-93005-9 10.1007/978-3-030-93005-9_12.

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Abstract

A mathematical model of age exaggeration is suggested that enables studying the statistical manifestations of the age overstatement formally, in simulations, and empirically. Our findings indicate that even an infrequent age exaggeration may substantially distort the mortality curve at an advanced old age. Old-age mortality distortions that were previously attributed to the effects of mortality selection in the heterogeneous population are shown to be produced by the age exaggeration too. The model proposed here may be used in both reconstructing the actual mortality profile and assessing the mode and extent of age misreporting.

Item Type:	Book Section
Research Programs:	Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) Population and Just Societies (POPJUS) > Social Cohesion, Health, and Wellbeing (SHAW)
Depositing User:	Luke Kirwan
Date Deposited:	15 Jun 2022 08:48
Last Modified:	15 Jun 2022 08:48
URI:	https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/18065

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