englandwales: England and Wales age at death

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England and Wales age at death

Description

This data frame contains information about 4032 Welsh and English individuals who died at age ranging from 105 to 110 (so-called semisupercentenarians) between December 28th, 1999 and December 31st, 2014, as well as all 179 supercentenarians (aged 110 and above) who died between January 1st, 1968 and December 31st, 2020.

Usage

englandwales

Format

A data frame with 4032 rows and 10 variables:

ndays

survival time (in days)

ageyear

floor of maximum age reached (in years)

gender

factor indicating gender of individual, either female or male

valid

factor for the quality flag; yes for validated records, no for unchecked records

ddate

death date (Date)

bdate

birth date (Date)

ltrunc1

first lower truncation bound (in days) corresponding to the lowest possible age achieved for inclusion as semisupercentenarian or supercentenarian

rtrunc1

first upper truncation bound (in days), corresponding to the maximum age reachable by the end of the sampling frame time window

ltrunc2

second lower truncation bound (in days) corresponding to 110 years, for semisupercentenarians who could have reached 110 before 2021

rtrunc2

second upper truncation bound (in days) corresponding to the maximum age by 2021 of semisupercentenarians who could have reached 110 before then

Details

All records for people who died at age 109 and all men, plus a stratified sample of the women were validated by the General Register Office (GRO). Observations are doubly interval truncated: some individuals could have been observed over distinct intervals if they died between 105 and 110 before 2014, but could have reached 110 before the end of the collection period.

The referenced technical report from ONS describes the validation procedure in more details and includes (approximate) sampling weights for the validation of the sample of women who died age 105-108.

The IDL data are licensed under CC BY 4.0 License; please refer to the IDL database to download the latest available data.

Source

International Database on Longevity (IDL), 2021. Hosted by the French Institute for Demographic Studies (Ined) at https://www.supercentenarians.org/en/. Data accessed on December 1st, 2023

References

Office for National Statistics (2016). Accuracy of official high-age population estimates, in England and Wales: an evaluation. Technical report, https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/ageing/methodologies/accuracyofofficialhighagepopulationestimatesinenglandandwalesanevaluation

International Database on Longevity (2021). French Institute for Demographic Studies (Ined) (host).

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