Volume 29 - Article 41 | Pages 1127–1152 
Cause-specific measures of life years lost
| Date received: | 12 Mar 2013 |
| Date published: | 05 Dec 2013 |
| Word count: | 3555 |
| Keywords: | competing risks, cumulative incidence, life expectancy, life years lost, multiple decrement life table |
| DOI: | 10.4054/DemRes.2013.29.41 |
| Additional files: | readme.29-41 (text file, 1 kB) |
| demographic-research.29-41 (zip file, 446 kB) | |
Abstract
Background: A new measure of the number of life years lost due to specific causes of death is introduced.
Methods: This measure is based on the cumulative incidence of death, it does not require "independence" of causes, and it satisfies simple balance equations: "total number of life years lost = sum of cause-specific life years lost", and "total number of life years lost before age x + temporary life expectancy between birth and age x = x".
Results: The measure is contrasted to alternatives suggested in the demographic literature and all methods are illustrated using Danish and Russian multiple decrement life-tables.
Author's Affiliation
Per Kragh Andersen - Københavns Universitet, Denmark
Vladimir Canudas-Romo - Australian National University, Australia
Niels Keiding - Københavns Universitet, Denmark
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