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Introducing the age-profile: an index of survival

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Christabel M. Young
Christabel M. Young
Affiliation:
Department of Demography, Australian National University, Canberra
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Summary

This paper introduces the concept of the ‘age-profile’, which represents the proportions of cohort populations surviving from birth to a given year. Life tables for Australia and three-dimensional diagrams based on these data are used to illustrate the difference between the ‘age-profile’ values for a given year and the transverse survival values for the same year. The last part of the paper describes areas in which the ‘age-profile’ might be used with reference to its value in representing the experience of cohorts.

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Research Article
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Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , October 1974 , pp. 427 - 438
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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