Mortality risk by living arrangement of the elderly Belgian population
Objectives: Mortality risk in old age is associated with both marital status and living arrangements (with whom a person is living). This study analyses how the association between living arrangements and mortality risk varies by age and gender. Data and methods: We use a dataset extracted from the Belgian national register for the population aged 60 years and over, from 1 January 1991 to 31 December 2010, that includes more than three million persons and describes their living arrangements. First we compute and compare single-year probabilities of death for each living arrangement. Then, in o... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
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Presses universitaires de Louvain
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Sprache: | Ndonga |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26918441 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/175959 |