Journal of Population Sciences
From: Race and life expectancy in the USA in the Great Depression
 | Training data (1900–1929 or 1910–1929)(excl. 1918) | Projection period (1929–1940) | ||||||||||
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 | 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 | Â | Â | Â | Â | 0.36 | 0.38 | Â | Â | Â | Â | 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 | Â | Â | Â | Â | 0.40c | 0.42d | Â | Â | Â | Â | 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 | Â | Â | Â | Â | 0.53e | 0.53e | Â | Â | Â | Â | 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 | Â | Â | Â | Â | 0.36 | 0.36 | Â | Â | Â | Â | 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 | Â | Â | Â | Â | 0.38f | 0.38f | Â | Â | Â | Â | 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 | Â | Â | Â | Â | 0.31g | 0.37h | Â | Â | Â | Â | 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 |