To understand why mortality change can distort calculations of death rates and life expectancy, it is informative to consider some examples that are as simple as possible. This short chapter presents four such illustrations. They show how lifesaving can roil lifetable statistics.
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Vaupel, J. W. (2008). Turbulence in lifetables: Demonstration by four simple examples. In Demographic Research Monographs (pp. 271–279). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78520-0_15
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