Life tables


Metadata
Period: Annual
Year: 2018

REFERENCE METADATA
01. Contact
02. Metadata update
03. Statistical presentation
04. Unit of measure
05. Reference Period
06. Institutional Mandate
07. Confidentiality
08. Release policy
09. Frequency of dissemination
10. Accessibility and clarity
11. Quality management
12. Relevance
13. Accuracy and reliability
14. Timeliness and punctuality
15. Coherence and comparability
16. Cost and Burden
17. Data revision
18. Statistical processing
19. Comment

01. ContactTop
01.1. Contact organisation

Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia

01.2. Contact organisation unit

Unit for calculation population estimates, projections and other demographic indicators

01.3. Contact name

Dragana Paunovic Radulovic

01.4. Contact person function

Statistician methodologist

01.5. Contact mail address

Milana Rakica 5, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

01.6. Contact email address

dragana.paunovic-radulovic@stat.gov.rs

 

01.7. Contact phone number

+381 11 2412922 ext. 264

01.8. Contact fax number

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02. Metadata updateTop
02.1. Metadata last certified
08/06/2018
02.2. Metadata last posted
4/7/2019
02.3. Metadata last update
4/7/2019

03. Statistical presentationTop
03.1. Data description

Life tables are the basic demographic tool for analyzing population mortality and they present a tabular overview of mortality by age and sex. Starting with probability of dying, as the main demographic indicator in life tables, all other biometric functions are also calculated: probability of survival, number of lives, mean lifetime or life expectancy at birth, etc.

According to data source and methodology of calculation, there are two types of tables: detailed or complete life tables by specific age, constructed on the basis of population census data and vital statistics data in the years around the census and abridged approximate life tables by five-year age groups, produced annually, on the basis of estimated population number and vital statistics data for the referent year.

 

03.2. Classification system

Regulation on the Nomenclature of Statistical Territorial Units ("Official Gazette of RS", No.109/09 and 46/10).

03.3. Coverage - sector

Demography

03.4. Statistical concepts and definitions

Life tables show a systematic and comprehensive picture of mortality and are the best way to present statistically the relationships between mortality, age and sex.

Abridged or approximate life tables by five-year age groups (n = 5) are calculated every year, based on population estimates and vital statistics data for that year.


The probability of dying is the basic demographic indicator in life tables, based on which all other biometric functions (number of lives, mean lifetime or life expectancy, etc.) are derived.

Definitions of the basic indicators:

Age x = 0, 1-4, 5-9, ..., 85 and over; 
Mortality rates by age (nmx) show the number of deaths per 1000 inhabitants, by age groups;

The probability of dying (nqx) is the probability that a person of x years of age will die before reaching the age of x + n years;

Number of persons alive of x years of age (lx) shows how many people out of 100000 inhabitants born at the same time will stay alive after x years (x = 0, 1, 5, 10, ..., 85 and over);
- Mean number of persons alive (nLx) shows the number of persons in a particular age group.
Sum of mean numbers of persons alive (Тx) shows the total number of persons alive of all following age groups.
- Life expectancy x) shows how long a person of a certain age (0, 1, 5,...,85 and over) is expected to live, on average, if in terms of mortality the conditions are the same as they were at the time of calculating the tables.

Detailed life tables by single years of age and sex, for the period 2010-2012, were calculated based on the results of the Census of Population, Households and Dwellings of  September 30, 2011 and results of population natural increase statistics for the years 2010, 2011 and 2012, and those are:

1         The number of people by calendar year of birth and from the Census of September 30, 2011;

2         The number of live births, by sex, in 2010 and 2011, from the statistical survey on births;

3         The number of deaths, by calendar year of birth and sex, as follows: number of deaths after birthday in 2010, number of deaths before and after birthday, before and after the Population Census in 2011 and number of deaths before and after birthday in 2012, from the statistical survey on deaths.

Definition of the basic indicators:

-          Age x = 0, ..., 100 years of age;

-          The probability of dying (qx) is the probability that a person aged x years will die before reaching the age of x + 1 years;

-          The probability of survival (px) is the probability that a person aged x years will live to x+1 years of age;

-          Number of persons alive of x years of age (lx) shows how one closed population of inhabitants born at the same time, which initial number of persons is l0 =100000, is successively reduced depending on the values px and qx;

-          Number of deaths (dx) shows how many persons out of the number of persons alive (lx) at a certain year of age x, will die before reaching the age of x+1 year;

-          Sum of the numbers of person alive (Nx) is the number used to calculate the life expectancy (еx) and it represents fictive sums of persons, from the set of 100000 persons alive born at the same time, who lived to 0 year of age, i.e. 1, 2,...,100 years of age;

-          Life expectancy (еx) represents, on average, how many years a person aged exactly x years will live, in terms of the same mortality conditions as they were at the time of calculating the tables. Life expectancy at birth (е0) is a particularly important result when calculating detailed life tables, which shows how long the newborn children will live, if the mortality conditions are the same as they were in moment of making the tables.

03.5. Statistical unit

The statistical unit used is “number”.

03.6. Statistical population

The statistical population is the total population.

03.7. Reference area

Data are available at the level of the Republic of Serbia and its regions.

Since 1999, the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia has no information on the AP Kosovo and Metohija, so they are not included in the coverage of the Republic of Serbia data (total).

03.8. Coverage - Time

Data are available for the period from the year 2011.

03.9. Base period

Not applicable.


04. Unit of measureTop
04. Unit of measure

Number


05. Reference PeriodTop
05. Reference Period

Calendar year


06. Institutional MandateTop
06.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements

Law on Official Statistics (“Official Gazette of RS”, No.104/09, 24/11)

Regulation on Establishing the Plan on Official Statistics for 2018 (“Official Gazette of RS”, No.120/17, of 07/01/2018)

  Program on Official Statistics from 2016 to 2020 (“Official Gazette of RS”, No.55/15, of 25/06/2015)

06.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing

Not applicable.


07. Confidentiality Top
07.1. Confidentiality - policy

Law on Official Statistics (“Official Gazette of RS”, No.104/09, 24/11)

07.2. Confidentiality - data treatment

Not applicable.


08. Release policyTop
08.1. Release calendar

June 28 - Statistical release “Vital Events”

December 31 – “Demographic Yearbook”

 

08.2. Release calendar access

http://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/calendar

 

08.3. Release policy - user access

The users are informed that the data are published through statistical releases.


09. Frequency of disseminationTop
09. Frequency of dissemination

The frequency of publishing the results of “Abridged Life Tables” is ANNUAL while “Complete Life Tables” are published once every ten years for the census year.


10. Accessibility and clarityTop
10.1. Dissemination format - News release

Statistical release “Vital Events”

10.2. Dissemination format - Publications

"Demographic Yearbook" (Republic of Serbia)

http://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/publikacije/?d=14

"Abidged life table"

http://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/publikacije/publication/?p=11632

"Complete life table"

http://publikacije.stat.gov.rs/G2014/Pdf/G20144010.pdf

10.3. Dissemination format - online database

http://data.stat.gov.rs/?caller=1805&languageCode=en-US

 

10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access

Not applicable.

10.5. Dissemination format - other

Not applicable.

10.6. Documentation on methodology

Abidged life table

http://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/publikacije/publication/?p=11632

Complete life tables

http://publikacije.stat.gov.rs/G2014/Pdf/G20144010.pdf

10.7. Quality management - documentation

Not applicable.


11. Quality managementTop
11.1. Quality assurance

Not applicable.

11.2. Quality management - assessment

Not applicable.


12. Relevance Top
12.1. User needs

Besides its usage in the mortality analysis for demographic purposes, the indicator life expectancy is also applied to produce demographic population projections which are utilized to formulate hypotheses on future mortality trends as well as to calculate various indicators. Data on life expectancy are particularly valuable for actuaries and insurance activities, since they are used as a technical basis to set up life insurance premiums.

12.2. User satisfaction

The Section for Public Relations and Dissemination in cooperation with the Working Group on Quality released the results of the Users’ Satisfaction Survey, 2015.

12.3. Completeness

The data are complete.


13. Accuracy and reliabilityTop
13.1. Overall accuracy

Not applicable.

13.2. Sampling error

Not applicable.

13.3. Non-sampling error

Not applicable.


14. Timeliness and punctualityTop
14.1. Timeliness

Data on life expectancy, the most important result of Abridged Life Tables, for the year T-1 are published on June 30 in year T.

In practice, at a five-year frequency, Abridged Life Tables for 5 successive years are published in one unified edition, while Complete Life Tables are produced for census years and are published immediately after publication of the first census books.

14.2. Punctuality

The data are published according to the release calendar.


15. Coherence and comparabilityTop
15.1. Comparability - geographical

 The data are comparable.

15.2. Comparability - over time

 The data are comparable.

15.3. Coherence - cross domain

Not applicable.

15.4. Coherence - internal

Not applicable.


16. Cost and BurdenTop
16. Cost and Burden

Not applicable.


17. Data revisionTop
17.1. Data revision - policy

Not applicable.

17.2. Data revision - practice

Not applicable.


18. Statistical processingTop
18.1. Source data

Detailed or complete life tables by specific age, constructed on the basis of population census data and vital statistics data in the years immediately before or after the census and abridged life tables by five-year age groups, are produced annually, on the basis of estimated population and vital statistics data for the referent year.

 

18.2. Frequency of data collection

Abridged Life Tables – annual data collection. 

Complete Life Tables – data are collected at ten-year frequency.

18.3. Data collection

Not applicable.

18.4. Data validation

Not applicable.

18.5. Data compilation

Not applicable.

18.6. Adjustment

Not applicable.


19. CommentTop
19. Comment

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