LAMBdA: The Latin American Mortality Database

 描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议数据生产，以扩大，加强和协调一个新的，最近传播的，公众可访问的，但仍然不完整的拉丁美洲死亡率数据库（LAMBdA）。目前，该数据库包含约400个生命表，记录了19个国家近17000年的死亡率（见webLAMBdA）。我们建议：（a）收集缺失的原始数据，以完成1820年开始的系列，并根据需要更新数据库;（B）制定新方法，并对已经实施的方法进行微调，以丰富数据库，增加每个国家年的多个死亡率估计数;（c）采用调整后的死因信息和相关的特定死因生命表;（d）将单岁生命表延长至100岁;（e）采用混合方法编制群组生命表;（f）将LAMBdA与其他死亡率数据统一起来。最后的产品将是一个数据库，可用于比较死亡率分析、老年死亡率模型估计、人口预测和预报微调，并研究一个有着独特死亡率下降历史和目前正经历前所未有的人口老龄化的区域的寿命演变。我们还提出了对LAMBdA（和其他数据库）的数据分析，以测试老年死亡率和寿命的标准和新理论。为此，我们使用LAMBdA（和其他数据库）的丰富版本来估计广泛的统计数据，这些统计数据为老年死亡率的轨迹提供信息，估计新的模型生命表模式，制定新的老年死亡率正式模型并测试其预测，最后，开发和使用一个关于死亡率的统计推断平台，包括多个估计和相关不确定性水平的评估。这些分析将揭示在经济、社会和体制条件不利的国家中可能改善（恶化）长寿进程的过程。这些分析将补充和扩展在高收入国家开展的分析，并将增进我们对人类寿命轨迹的理解。 LAMBdA：拉丁美洲死亡率数据库<website>HMD：人类死亡率数据库<website>LAC：拉丁美洲和加勒比国家webLAMBdA LAMBdA官方网站&lt;www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/latinmortality&gt;

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose data production to expand, enhance, and harmonize a new, recently disseminated, publicly accessible but still incomplete database for Latin American mortality (LAMBdA). Currently the data base contains about 400 life tables documenting close to 170 hundred years of mortality for 19 countries (see webLAMBdA). We propose to (a) collect missing raw data to complete the series beginning in 1820 and update the database as needed, (b) formulate new methods and fine-tune those already implemented to enrich the database with multiple mortality estimates per country-year, (c) introduce adjusted cause of death information and associated cause-specific life tables (d) extend life tables in single years of age up to 100; (e) use mixed methods to construct cohorts life tables; and (f) harmonize LAMBdA with other mortality data. The final product will be a database ready for use in comparative mortality analyses, estimation of old age mortality models, fine-tuned population projections and forecasts, and to study the evolution of longevity in a region with a singular history of mortality decline and currently experiencing demographic aging of unprecedented speed. We also propose data analyses on LAMBdA (and other databases) to test both standard and new theories of old age mortality and longevity. To do so we use the enriched version of LAMBdA (and other databases) to estimate a broad spectrum of statistics that inform trajectories of old age mortality, to estimate new model life table patterns, to formulate new formal models of old age mortality and test their predictions and, finally, to develop and employ a platform for statistical inference about mortality including multiple estimates and assessment of associated levels of uncertainty. The analyses will shed light on processes that could improve (worsen) the course of longevity in countries with adverse economic, social, and institutional conditions. These analyses will complement and extend those carried out in high income countries and will improve our understanding of trajectories of human longevity. 1Acronyms used throughout the text: LAMBdA: Latin American Mortality Database<website> HMD: Human Mortality Database<website> LAC: Latin American and Caribbean countries webLAMBdA LAMBdA official web site<www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/latinmortality>