Life tablesMetadataPeriod: AnnualYear: 2019 |
01. Contact | Top |
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 | |
5 Milana Rakića, Belgrade | |
01.6. Contact email address | |
01.7. Contact phone number | |
+381 11 2412922 ext. 264 | |
01.8. Contact fax number | |
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02. Metadata update | Top |
02.1. Metadata last certified | |
08/06/2018 | |
02.2. Metadata last posted | |
21/7/2020 | |
02.3. Metadata last update | |
21/7/2020 |
03. Statistical presentation | Top |
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 | |
ulation 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.
Definitions of the basic indicators:
- Age x = 0, 1-4, 5-9, ..., 85 and over; - 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); 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 on life expectancy at birth are available at the level of the Republic of Serbia and its regions, as well as areas and municipalities, while the data on bimetric functions are available at the regional level. 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 measure | Top |
04. Unit of measure | |
Number |
05. Reference Period | Top |
05. Reference Period | |
Calendar year |
06. Institutional Mandate | Top |
06.1. Institutional Mandate - legal acts and other agreements | |
National legislation:
- Official Statistics Law
- Resolution on the Programme of official statistics
- Regulation on the Plan of official statistics for the current year
* The above documents are available at SORS website: www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/o-nama/dokumenti
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06.2. Institutional Mandate - data sharing | |
Not applicable. |
07. Confidentiality | Top |
07.1. Confidentiality - policy | |
Data confidentiality is stipulated by: - Official Statistics Law (Official Gazette of RS, number 104/2009), Articles 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, and 49. (www.stat.gov.rs/media/2322/zakon_o_statisticie.pdf) - Rulebook on statistical data protection in the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (www.stat.gov.rs/media/2343/rulebook-on-statistical-data-protection-in-sors.doc ) - Guidelines on measures of data and information protection in the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (www.stat.gov.rs/media/2341/guidelines-on-measures-of-data-and-information-protection-in-the-sors.doc ) | |
07.2. Confidentiality - data treatment | |
Not applicable. |
08. Release policy | Top |
08.1. Release calendar | |
Calendar of releases is available at SORS website on the 1st day of December every year for the forthcoming year (http://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/calendar).
All SORS releases are launched at 12.00.
Any divergence from the defined time schedule are announced in advance and explained in the Calendar.
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08.2. Release calendar access | |
Calendar of releases is available at SORS website: | |
08.3. Release policy - user access | |
The data obtained through statistical surveys are released at the internet presentation (http://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/),
in the database (http://data.stat.gov.rs/?caller=SDDB&languageCode=en-US),
in statistical releases and publications (http://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/publikacije/).
The results of official statistics are available at the same time to all users on impartial basis; any privileged access by external users before their release is not allowed.
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09. Frequency of dissemination | Top |
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 clarity | Top |
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" | |
10.3. Dissemination format - online database | |
10.4. Dissemination format - microdata access | |
On request, the access to anonymized microdata is ensured to scientific and research institutions.
The request can be placed by email at stat@stat.gov.rs, or by regular mail addressed at 5 Milana Rakića St, Belgrade.
For more information, please see http://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/korisnicka-podrska/micropodaci.
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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 | |
10.7. Quality management - documentation | |
Not applicable. |
11. Quality management | Top |
11.1. Quality assurance | |
The SORS quality management system is relied on the Serbian official statistics mission and vision, as well as on the European Statistics Code of Practice – CoP and the Total Quality Management – TQM principles, which together make the common quality framework of the European Statistical System (ESS).
For more information, please see the documents at http://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/o-nama/sistem-upravljanja-kvalitetom.
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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 | |
On biennial basis (once in two years), by the means of web interview, implemented is the User Satisfaction Survey. The survey results are available at SORS website: http://www.stat.gov.rs/en-US/o-nama/sistem-upravljanja-kvalitetom. | |
12.3. Completeness | |
The data are complete. |
13. Accuracy and reliability | Top |
13.1. Overall accuracy | |
Not applicable. | |
13.2. Sampling error | |
Not applicable. | |
13.3. Non-sampling error | |
Not applicable. |
14. Timeliness and punctuality | Top |
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 comparability | Top |
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 Burden | Top |
16. Cost and Burden | |
Not applicable. |
17. Data revision | Top |
17.1. Data revision - policy | |
The SORS general revision policy constitutes the global frame ensuring that each statistical domain shall define its own revision policy in compliance with its specific nature.
The general SORS revision policy determines:
- general rules of revisions of the published data,
- forms of informing users as regards the possible causes of revisions,
- categories of revisions, and
- documents covering all aspects of revisions.
The general SORS revision policy is available at http://www.stat.gov.rs/media/2332/general-revision-policy.docx.
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17.2. Data revision - practice | |
Not applicable. |
18. Statistical processing | Top |
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. Comment | Top |
19. Comment | |
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