Literate Life Expectancy under Dynamic set up with Applications to Indian Data

Literacy enhances an individual's quality of life by creating an environment to develop one's personal skills and thereby provides wider social and economic benefits for a community to flourish. To measure human quality of life literate life expectancy (LLE) was introduced by Lutz (1995), which combines both life expectancy and literacy. Further, the concept of dynamic life table arises when the assumption of a constant mortality probability of a cohort of period life table is altered to the observed rates of change of mortality probabilities of that cohort. Here we proposed an indicator called ‘dynamic literate life expectancy’ that will measure the average years lived by a population in a literate state with the continuous changes in mortality. An application of this indicator is shown for Indian data for the year 2011 when the probabilities of death changes over the previous 10 years. The paper highlighted the significant differences between LLE under dynamic and usual procedure for various states, where Kerala performs exceptionally well in terms of LLE for both sexes. Also, the quality of life for males is found to be better than females in terms of dynamic LLE.