Shiro Horiuchi

http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol13/8/

doi:10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.8

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Abstract

It is widely known that shifts of cohort fertility schedule can produce misleading trends in period TFR. This note shows that such a "tempo bias" can occur in age-specific mortality as well: if the age distribution of cohort deaths shifts toward older (younger) ages, the period age-specific death rate are biased downward (upward).

Author's affiliation
Shiro Horiuchi
City University of New York, United States of America

Keywords
age-specific death rates, mortality, tempo effect

Word count (Main text)
3197

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