1. Introducing the age-profile: an index of survival.
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Young, Christabel M. and Young, C M
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COHORT analysis , *POPULATION , *CHILDBIRTH , *LIFE tables , *DEMOGRAPHY , *LIFE expectancy - Abstract
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. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 1974
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