TY  - JOUR
A1  - Scherbov, Sergei
A1  - Ediev, Dalkhat
T1  - Significance of life table estimates for small populations: Simulation-based study of estimation errors
Y1  - 2011/03/31
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 527
EP  - 550
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.22
VL  - 24
IS  - 22
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol24/22/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol24/22/24-22.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol24/22/24-22.pdf
N2  - 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.

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