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Analysed Mortality: the English Life no. 8A Tables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Eric B. Nathan
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The earliest mortality tables were constructed from inadequate and relatively defective data. This was obvious to their authors, and the need for fuller, more accurate and more homogeneous data impressed itself upon subsequent constructors of mortality tables, and has materially affected the outlook on mortality tables even up to the present time.

Leaving out of account the construction of the Northampton and Carlisle Tables, we find on the one side a series of mortality tables based upon census returns dating from the English Life No. 3 to the English Life No. 8. These tables were constructed by various methods, usually implying that either the deaths and population or the rate of mortality could be expressed by a finite difference curve.

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Transactions of the Faculty of Actuaries , Volume 10 , 1925 , pp. 45 - 124
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Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1925

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page 47 note * Admitted as standard lives.

page 50 note * From and including the year 1921 the international numerical coding of diseases has been changed, and although there has been but very little change in the actual grouping of diseases, the numerical definition thereof is now different from that outlined in the present paper.