Race and life expectancy in the USA in the Great Depression

Genus

Journal of Population Sciences

Table 1 Table of before and after changes in life expectancy

	Training data (1900–1929 or 1910–1929)(excl. 1918)						Projection period (1929–1940)
	Min. e(0) (year)		Max. e(0) (year)		Δe(0), end–start		Min. e(0) (year)		Max. e(0) (year)		Δe(0), end–start
	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F	M	F
Death registration area of the USA
All races	45.74	48.41	57.55	60.56	10.82	11.41	56.56	59.81	61.10	65.42	4.45	5.61
	(1900)	(1900)	(1927)	(1927)			(1929)	(1929)	(1939)	(1940)
per year					0.36	0.38					0.37	0.47
White	46.11	48.80	58.90	62.10	11.95	12.67	58.05	61.47	62.31	66.83	4.19	5.36
	(1900)	(1900)	(1927)	(1927)			(1929)	(1929)	(1939)	(1940)
per year					0.40c	0.42d					0.35	0.45
Non-white	29.17	31.68	48.00	48.77	15.91	15.80	45.08	47.48	51.80	55.02	6.42	7.45
	(1900)	(1900)	(1922)	(1922)			(1929)	(1929)	(1939)	(1939)
per year					0.53e	0.53e					0.54	0.62
Wh.–Nonwh.	16.93	17.12	10.90	13.33	− 3.96a	− 3.13b	12.97	13.99	10.51	11.81	− 2.23	− 2.09
Death registration states of 1910 (balanced panel)
All races	49.63	53.24	57.51	60.93	7.17	7.25	56.80	60.49	61.91	66.33	5.10	5.84
	(1910)	(1910)	(1927)	(1927)			(1929)	(1929)	(1939)	(1940)
per year					0.36	0.36					0.43	0.49
White	50.01	53.70	58.24	61.60	7.55	7.50	57.56	61.20	62.51	66.88	4.87	5.69
	(1910)	(1910)	(1927)	(1927)			(1929)	(1929)	(1939)	(1940)
per year					0.38f	0.38f					0.41i	0.47j
Non-white	35.89	38.45	43.31	45.83	6.12	7.38	42.34	45.83	51.73	54.89	9.39	9.06
	(1917)	(1910)	(1922)	(1929)			(1929)	(1929)	(1940)	(1940)
per year					0.31g	0.37h					0.78k	0.75l
Wh.–Nonwh.	14.12	15.25	14.93	15.77	1.43	0.12	15.22	15.37	10.78	12.00	− 4.52	− 3.37