RACIAL AND ETHNIC MORTALITY DIFFERENCES AT OLDER AGES

这项研究试图改善对非裔美国人死亡率的估计 1930年至1990年期间的人口数量。一个中心焦点是 年黑人死者年龄报告质量的评估 20世纪80年代。这项评估将涉及死亡证明的直接匹配 对于被报告为60岁以上死亡的人，对照这些记录 1900、1910和1920年美国人口普查中的个人，以及反对 社会保障管理局的记录。对于一个人的样本 出生在马里兰州的这项研究还将把死亡证明与 他们的出生证明。基于这些匹配研究，更正 将编制1930-1990年期间死亡年龄的分布情况。 使用各种人口统计估计技术，来自 匹配的研究和其他数据将转换为改进的估计 黑人的死亡率。这些方法包括队列的普查间比较。 大小；已灭绝的生成方法；制作生命表的程序 直接根据死亡和特定年龄增长的年龄分布 费率；以及一种综合多种观测结果的综合方法 从人口普查和生命登记到最终估计的队列大小 死亡率和人口。后一种方法的副产品将是新的 对人口普查完整性的估计。死因寿命表也将 1980-1990年期间为非洲裔美国人制作的。

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.