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Life Table
Life Table
Requirements
Age- specific death rates of a given
population during the selected year.
Population living at all ages for the
selected year.
Age Age- No. No. ‘nlx’ ‘Tx’ Avg
interval sp. living dying remaining
Death ‘lx’ ‘ndx’ life ‘ex’
rates
0- 1 68.9 100000 6890 94832 5978010 59.87
1-5 21.1 93110 2110 368220 5883178 63.18
5-10 10.42 91000 1042
10-15
149225 246724
75+ 249.9 97499 97499
First column – age interval( 0-1,
1-5)
Second column – age specific
death rates/ 1000 population.
Fourth column ‘ndx’– No. of
individuals dying during the age
interval for 1,00,000 population who
were born alive.
Third column ‘lx’ – No. of individuals
alive at their nth birthday.
5th column ‘nlx’ – total no of person-years
lived by the cohort at each age.
6th column ‘tx’ – total no. of person-
years lived after exact age x, the last
value of nlx is written in last row of tx.
- second last = sum of last 2 rows of
nlx.
7th column ‘ex’- expectation of life at
age x
ex = tx / lx,
at birth = 5978010/100000 = 59.78.
Interpretation
Comparison of communities.
Analysis by cause of death.
Population problems
Morbidity analysis
Hospital studies
Clinical medicine.
References