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Person—life expectancy, total years N[NN]

Definition

The number of years, on average, a person is expected to live, based on current age and sex-specific death rates.

Components

Data Element (this item)
Person—life expectancy, total years N[NN]

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Total years NNN ".
Data Type Number
Format N[NN]
Maximum character length 3
Values
Value Meaning Start Date End Date
Supplementary Values 999 Unknown/not stated

Comments

Guide for use:
A life table is a statistical model used to represent mortality of a population. In its simplest form, a life table is generated from age-specific death rates and the resulting values are used to measure mortality, survivorship and life expectancy.

References


This content Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Attribution provided as required under the AIHW CC-BY licence.

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Inclusion in Data Set Specifications 1
Inclusion in Data Distributions 0
As a numerator in an Indicator 1
As a denominator in an Indicator 0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator 1