The severe anti-female bias in natality and child mortality that gives rise to India's missing women has been widely …

In this paper I explore the formal relationship between period and cohort mortality, focusing on a comparison of … and Feeney that the level of period is distorted, or biased, due to changes in the timing of mortality. I show that their … year for a hypothetical population subject to observed historical mortality conditions but with a constant annual number of …

these measures and their empirical testing on mortality data suggest a possibility for different judgements about the … decomposition of age-components into effects of mortality and composition of population by group is developed. Temporal changes in … computed from various types of mortality data of France, Japan, Sweden and the USA in 1900-95, decompositions of the USA …

that death rates declined differently for males and females and that the rate of mortality decline was not constant over …

centenarians largely depends on mortality features between 80 and 100 years. This study aims to cast light on our knowledge of … elderly mortality differentials, total and by cause of death, in Sardinia, and attempts to verify this hypothesis. To do so …, an analysis is conducted of age and sex mortality trends over time at province and municipality level. Results fully …

Background: Prior estimates of the Russian mortality by socio-demographic group revealed significant differentials … used for estimation of mortality in this study, along with similar register-based data from Helsinki and Oslo. Data and … the LRC cohort, mortality of men with high education is close to the city average for Helsinki and Oslo. Absolute inter …

shows that such a "tempo bias" can occur in age-specific mortality as well: if the age distribution of cohort deaths shifts …