RACIAL AND ETHNIC MORTALITY DIFFERENCES AT OLDER AGES

这项研究旨在改善非洲裔美国人的死亡率估计， 1930年至1990年期间的人口。 一个中心焦点是 美国黑人死者年龄报告质量评估 80年代 这项评估将涉及直接核对死亡证明 报告的60岁以上死亡的人与这些人的记录相比， 1900年、1910年和1920年美国人口普查中的个人， 社会保障局的记录。 对于一个人的样本， 出生于马里兰州的人，这项研究还将死亡证明与 他们的出生证明。 根据这些匹配研究，校正 将编制1930-1990年期间的死亡年龄分布情况。 使用各种人口统计估计技术， 匹配研究和其他数据将转化为更好的估计 黑人的死亡率。 方法包括队列的普查间比较 大小;灭绝的世代方法;制作生命表的程序 直接从死亡年龄分布和年龄特异性生长 率;和一个综合的方法，整合多个观察， 从人口普查和人口动态登记到最终估计的队列规模 死亡率和人口。 后一种方法的副产品将是新的 估计普查的完整性。 死因生命表也将 在1980-1990年期间为非洲裔美国人生产的。

This study seeks to improve estimates of mortality for the African-American population over the period from 1930 to 1990. A central focus is an assessment of the quality of age reporting for black decedents in the 1980s. This assessment will involve direct matching of death certificates for persons reported as dying above age 60 against records for these same individuals in the U.S. Censuses of 1900, 1910, and 1920, and against records of the Social Security Administration. For a sample of persons born in Maryland, the study will also match death certificates against their birth certificates. Based upon these matching studies, corrected distributions of ages at death over the period 1930-1990 will be produced. Using a variety of demographic estimation techniques, data from the matching studies and other data will be converted into improved estimates of black mortality. The methods include intercensal comparisons of cohort size; extinct generation methods; a procedure for producing life tables directly from a distribution of ages at deaths and age-specific growth rates; and a comprehensive method that integrates multiple observations on cohort size from censuses and vital registration into a final estimate of mortality and population. A by-product of this latter method will be new estimates of census completeness. Cause-of-death life tables will also be produced for the African-American population during the 1980-1990 period.