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Z Nanjo

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PubMed1990

[A single year birth cohort analysis of mortality in Japan, 1950 to 1984, statistical method and all cause mortality].

Mortality of single birth year cohort were calculated using the data tape of Information Service on World Health Statistics, WHO, 1950-1984. The data tape gave population and number of deaths for each year of age under 5 years of age and by 5 years of age for ages from 5 to 84 years. Population and number of deaths by age for each year of age in each calendar year were estimated by interpolation. Populations for each year of age were interpolated by B-spline interpolation. Number of deaths for each year of age were calculated by application of "two dimensional semi-Hermite method" after estimation of number of deaths for age 80, 81,......84, using Sprague interpolation factors. Age-specific cohort mortality curves were lower for each successive cohort, demonstrating the so-called "cohort phenomenon", clearly. Ratios of mortalities at the same age, for each successive 5 year interval cohort, which indicate cohort-by-cohort changes of mortalities, were thus less than 1.0 in almost all age groups. In recent years the ratios have gradually been leveling off at 0.8-0.9. Cohorts born in the early Showa Era (around 1930) showed higher ratios than all other cohorts, indicating relatively poor improvement in mortalities compared to the other cohorts. Ratios of cohort mortalities for successive ages within the same cohort, which indicates mortalities increase with advance of age, were greater than 1.0 after adulthood. These particular results showed that the increase in mortality with age accelerated after 30 years of age and that a difference in trend was observed between male and female after age 50. This new method of cohort analysis, single birth year cohort, gives clearer results than those obtained by methods heretofore utilized in cohort studies and is useful for more detailed analysis of cohort mortality.

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PubMed1987

[[Demographic data and spline interpolation]].

Five formulas of spline interpolation and their applications to demographic data are introduced. "The formulas are applied to (1) interpolating and smoothing values of life table functions....(2) interpolating births by five-year age groups of mothers into single ages....(3) interpolating cause-specific deaths by five-year age groups into single ages....[and] (4) interpolating and smoothing two-dimensional demographic data e.g. mortality rates and expectations of life by year and age." (SUMMARY IN ENG)

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PubMed1986

[[Cohort analysis of mortality from three major adult diseases]].

The authors present cohort mortality rates for Japan by five-year age interval for all causes of death and for malignant neoplasms, cerebrovascular disease, and heart disease. The calculations are based on vital statistics data for 1947-1982 and period and cohort life tables for 1891-1982 published by Zenjo Nanjo and Kazumasa Kobayashi. "Ratios of individual cause to all causes in each age were calculated and applied to [a] mortality matrix derived from Nanjo-Kobayashi's life tables. Age-specific period and cohort mortality rates for each cause were calculated from [the] cause-specific mortality matrix.... Trends and age patterns of cohort mortalities and ratios of mortalities in successive cohort and age group were investigated." (SUMMARY IN ENG)

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