How Long Will Scottish Babies Live?
This 1 day hands-on training event introduced students to one of the oldest and most used quantitative models in demography, the Life Table. Invented in the 17th century, it is still vital for planning the future of health care, personal care and pensions in an ageing society. The class will cover principles in a lecture followed by a practical session using spreadsheets to compute life tables for Scotland
Lecture Slides
In the first part of this event, Prof Rees presented a lecture on period and cohort life tables.
Additional materials
The following materials were provided to delegates as background reading:
