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Haunsperger, D.B. (1991). Paradoxes When Computing Life Expectancy Over Aggregated Subpopulations. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-91-019
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Abstract
The calculated life expectancy (whether by subpopulation-specific characteristics or by age-specific mortality rates) for aggregated subpopulations need not lie within the limits of the individual subpopulations' life expectancies. For two subpopulations and two age groups, we present a geometric interpretation of exactly what happens and indicate how this generalizes. Also, we give a complete algebraic characterization of when paradoxes can and cannot occur for the case of two subpopulations and two age groups.
| Item Type: | Monograph (IIASA Working Paper) |
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| Research Programs: | World Population (POP) |
| Depositing User: | IIASA Import |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jan 2016 02:01 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Aug 2021 17:14 |
| URI: | https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/3546 |
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