Mortality Comparisons and Age: a New Mortality Curve
| dc.contributor.author | Creedy, John | |
| dc.contributor.author | Subramanian, S. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-10-05T21:45:58Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-10-05T21:45:58Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2022 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper introduces a new mortality curve to illustrate and measure mortality and its relation to age. The curve draws on the ‘Lorenz-Gini’ framework of income-inequality measurement. The paper advances the cause of a ‘mortality curve’ analogous to the Lorenz curve, and a ‘mortality-inefficiency’ measure analogous to the Gini coefficient of inequality. The idea is to supplement the Crude Death Rate (CDR) with a mortality-inefficiency measure in a composite index of mortality which attends to both the mean and the dispersion of an age-distribution of deaths. | en_NZ |
| dc.format | en_NZ | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/21355 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_NZ | |
| dc.publisher | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington | en_NZ |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Working Papers in Public Finance ; 03/2022 | en_NZ |
| dc.rights.holder | www.victoria.ac.nz/sacl/about/cpf | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Mortality Curve | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Mortality-inefficiency measure | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Crude Death Rate | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Optimally distributed equivalent death rate | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Lorenz Curve | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Gini coefficient | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Mean income | en_NZ |
| dc.subject | Equally distributed equivalent income | en_NZ |
| dc.title | Mortality Comparisons and Age: a New Mortality Curve | en_NZ |
| dc.type | Text | en_NZ |
| vuwschema.contributor.unit | School of Accounting and Commercial Law | en_NZ |
| vuwschema.subject.anzsrcforV2 | 440304 Mortality | en_NZ |
| vuwschema.type.vuw | Working or Occasional Paper | en_NZ |
