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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 2 Improvement in empirical e(0) and e(15) from 1929 to 1933, for all twelve population × sex × panel combinations

From: Race and life expectancy in the USA in the Great Depression

  

Total pop’n

Whites

Nonwhites

Life expectancy at birth

Death registration area

M

2.65

2.39

4.81

(main text)

F

2.94

2.68

4.95

Death registration states of 1910

M

2.92

2.78

5.30

(this appendix, solid pattern)

F

2.87

2.81

4.77

Life expectancy at age fifteen:

Death registration area

M

1.62

1.42

3.08

(main text)

F

2.08

1.85

3.74

Death registration states of 1910

M

1.56

1.50

2.64

(this appendix, solid pattern)

F

1.69

1.68

2.49