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An application

 

We are going to give an example of the calculation of healthy life expectancy using the Sullivan method. This example uses similar data as [15]. To that extent, we apply the formula 2:

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This calculation is reproduced in table 1.

 

For complete results see: [15]  
Age tex2html_wrap_inline992 tex2html_wrap_inline1090 tex2html_wrap_inline1022 tex2html_wrap_inline1094 tex2html_wrap_inline1096 tex2html_wrap_inline1100
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)
0 100 000 496 892 0.990 491 930 7 010 958 70.1
5 99 244 496 003 0.976 483 872 6 519 028 65.7
tex2html_wrap_inline1102 tex2html_wrap_inline1102 tex2html_wrap_inline1102 tex2html_wrap_inline1102 tex2html_wrap_inline1102 tex2html_wrap_inline1102 tex2html_wrap_inline1102
tex2html_wrap_inline1102 tex2html_wrap_inline1102 tex2html_wrap_inline1102 tex2html_wrap_inline1102 tex2html_wrap_inline1102 tex2html_wrap_inline1102 tex2html_wrap_inline1102
tex2html_wrap_inline1102 tex2html_wrap_inline1102 tex2html_wrap_inline1102 tex2html_wrap_inline1102 tex2html_wrap_inline1102 tex2html_wrap_inline1102 tex2html_wrap_inline1102
65 89 367 436 589 0.804 350 877 1 097 520 12.3
70 84 968 408 793 0.714 291 942 746 643 8.8
75 78 012 364 013 0.630 229 175 454 701 5.8
80 66 625 290 533 0.487 141 559 225 526 3.4
85 48 532 289 068 0.710 83 967 83 967 1.7
Tableau 1: Calculation of health expectancy from age tex2html_wrap_inline992 : France, 1991, females, simplified calculation.

These are comments on the different columns of the table 1.

1st column:
ages. Here, tex2html_wrap_inline1144 for i=0,1,2....17. The different age groups are: tex2html_wrap_inline1148 85 and older].

2nd column and 3rd column:
tex2html_wrap_inline1008 and tex2html_wrap_inline1022 , respectively number of survivors at age tex2html_wrap_inline992 and number of years lived between age tex2html_wrap_inline992 and age tex2html_wrap_inline1160 by people living at age tex2html_wrap_inline992 . The values are taken from an ordinary complete life table calculated with deaths registered during the year of the health survey (here, the French life table for 1991).

4th column:
non disabled prevalences (percentage of persons free of disability in the different age groups). These rates derive from a health survey on a sample of the whole population (here, the French health survey of 1991).

5th column:
approximation of the time spent free of disability between tex2html_wrap_inline992 and tex2html_wrap_inline1160 by the tex2html_wrap_inline1008 persons. We have calculated the products between figures of the 3rd column and those of the 4th column.

6th column:
approximation of the time spent free of disability after age tex2html_wrap_inline992 . It is the sum of values of the 5th column from tex2html_wrap_inline992 to the end of the column.

7th column:
expectancy of time to be spent free of disability. It is the result of the division of the 6th column by the 2nd column.


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Eric Hauet
Fri Apr 25 22:40:35 DFT 1997