Effects of age misreporting on mortality estimates at older ages

Samuel H. Preston; Irma T. Elo; Quincy Stewart

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Effects of age misreporting on mortality estimates at older ages

Samuel H. Preston, Irma T. Elo, Quincy Stewart

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This study examines how age misreporting typically affects estimates of mortality at older ages. We investigate the effects of three patterns of age misreporting - net age overstatement, net age understatement, and symmetric age misreporting - on mortality estimates at ages 40 and above. We consider five methods to estimate mortality: conventional estimates derived from vital statistics and censuses;longitudinal studies where age is identified at baseline;variable-r procedures based on age distributions of the population;variable-r procedures based on age distributions of deaths;and extinct generation methods. For each of the age misreporting patterns and each of the methods of mortality estimation, we find that age misstatement biases mortality estimates downwards at the oldest ages.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	165-177
Number of pages	13
Journal	Population Studies
Volume	53
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00324720308075
State	Published - Feb 1999

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Samuel H. Preston, Irma T. Elo and Quincy Stewart are at the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104. This research is supported by a grant from the National Institute of Aging, AG10168-02. We are grateful to Bert Kestenbaum for comments on an earlier draft.

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