Volume 13 - Article 8 | Pages 189-200
Tempo effect on age-specific death rates
| Date received: | 24 Feb 2005 |
| Date published: | 04 Nov 2005 |
| Word count: | 3197 |
| Keywords: | age-specific death rates, mortality, tempo effect |
| DOI: | 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.8 |
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
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