Life expectancy tables

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From: CINDY SEVERT
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 00:00

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I have a user who needs to get the probability of living to a certain age by
respondent's age, gender and race.  I am thinking the user needs actuary
tables of life expectation by certain characteristics.

To paraphrase the user's description of the problem:

I am using the HRS which asks the respondent and their spouse the
likelihood of living to ages 75 and 85.  In order to know the likelihood of
a husband becoming a widower at age 75, we have to have to know the wife's
likelihood of dying before her husband is 75.

Now, my idea is to find a database to have age, race, gender and survival
rate.  Then, I could just simply match this database with my data to get
the survival rate for each person.

Any and all suggestions will be appreciated.  Thanks!

Cindy Severt
Center for Demography & Ecology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
severt@ssc.wisc.edu

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From: severt@ssc.wisc.edu (CINDY SEVERT)
Subject: Life expectancy tables
Date: 1995/06/07
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