Calculating age-specific death rates by sex in the Philippines from life expectancy at birth using the linear link model

• Main Authors: Chua, Janelle Ong, Ng, Kyla Camille Vesagas
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: Mortality—Statistics; Mortality—Tables; Linear models (Statistics); Life expectancy; Statistics and Probability
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdb_math/2; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=etdb_math
• Institution: De La Salle University

Life tables are extensively used in the design of sustainable government support systems and valuation of insurance products, leading to increased interest in mortality modelling and forecasting. However, despite various available methods, such research in the Philippine setting is clearly lacking....