Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue: 1

Generation of District Level Life Table for India

1Research Scholar, Department of Statistics, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India

2Professor, Department of Statistics, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India

3Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Darrang College, Tezpur, Assam, India

*Corresponding author: Rajan Sarma Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Darrang College, Tezpur, Assam, India Email: srmrjn@gmail.com

Online published on 4 January, 2017.

Abstract

The importance of constructing life table at the district level lies in the fact that it helps to generate other life tables relating to work force, educational level, health status etc which will benefit the policy makers to evaluate and monitor the overall scenario of quality of life of the people residing in the districts of India. In the present study in addition to the analysis of e00 for both the sexes at the district level of the selected states, temporary expectation of life are also estimated to study the level of mortality in different phases of life. The results highlighted that in all selected phases of life the districts of Kerala are in a better position in comparison to the other districts for both the sexes.

Keywords

Life expectancy at birth, Temporary expectation of life, Regression, India, District