Actuarial Study, Issue 99

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U.S. Department Health, Education, and Welfare, Social Security Administration, Office of the Actuary, 1937
 

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Page 3 - The total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children at each age in accordance with prevailing age-specific fertility rates.
Page 12 - The life expectancy for any year is the average number of years of life remaining for a person if that person were to experience the death rates by age observed in. or assumed for, the selected years.
Page 21 - May 1957. 53 pp. Processed. Presents two population projections that will underlie the long-range cost estimates for the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program. Includes four other population projections that suggest the possible range in the total population and its distribution by age and sex over the longrange future. VALAORAS, VASILIOS G. "Young and Aged Populations.
Page 14 - Life expectancy—Life expectancy is the average number of years of life remaining to a person at a particular age and is based on a given set of age-specific death rates, generally the mortality conditions existing in the period mentioned. Life expectancy may be determined by race, sex, or other characteristics using age-specific death rates for the population with that characteristic. See...
Page 27 - Actuary, upon request. Because eligibility for many categories of OASDI benefits depends on marital status, the population is projected by marital status, as well as by age and sex. The projections start from a recent estimate of the population in the Social Security Area by age, sex, and marital status and from a recent estimate of existing marriages by age of husband and age of wife. Three separate projections, denoted Alternatives I, II, and III, are developed by analyzing historical data and...
Page 10 - ... infectious diseases (such as poliomyelitis and influenza) is possible and because only a small reduction in mortality from violent causes (accidents, suicide, and homicide) is expected. Reductions for the aged are expected to continue at a relatively rapid pace, as further advances are made against degenerative diseases (such as heart and vascular disease). The gap between male and female mortality is expected to stabilize as women become increasingly subject to many of the same enviornmental...
Page 2 - Census to be consistent with population estimates by age as published by the Bureau of the Census in Current Population Reports, Series P-25, No.
Page 5 - ... (temporary). Ql: What is the proper method for determining population? Al: All determinations of population must be made with respect to any calendar year on the basis of the most recent census estimate (whether final or provisional) of the resident population of the State or other governmental unit published by the Bureau of the Census in the "Current Population Reports" series before the beginning of the calendar year.
Page 6 - Death rates (generally referred to as central death rates) are defined as the number of deaths during the year divided by the midyear population.
Page 8 - The age-adjusted central death rate is the weighted average of the age-specific central death rates for a particular sex and year. The weights are the number of people in the corresponding age groups of the 1980 US census population.

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