Sergei Scherbov
Dalkhat Ediev

http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol24/22/

doi:10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.22

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Abstract

We study bias, standard errors, and distributions of characteristics of life tables for small populations. Theoretical considerations and simulations show that statistical efficiency of different methods is, above all, affected by the population size. Yet it is also significantly affected by the life table construction method and by a population’s age composition. Study results are presented in the form of ready-to-use tables and relations, which may be useful in assessing the significance of estimates and differences in life expectancy across time and space for the territories with a small population size, when standard errors of life expectancy estimates may be high.

Author's affiliation
Sergei Scherbov
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
Dalkhat Ediev
Vienna Institute of Demography, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

Keywords
errors, life table, small populations

Word count (Main text)
4811

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