Multistate life table with duration dependence: An application to Hungarian female marital history

Life expectancy in long-term institutional care by marital status: multistate life table estimates for older Finnish men and women.

OBJECTIVES We estimate (a) probabilities of moving to and from long-term institutional care and probabilities of death and (b) life expectancy in the community and in care by gender and marital status. METHOD A 40% random sample of Finns aged 65+ at the end of 1997 (n = 301,263) drawn from the population register was linked with register-based information on sociodemographic characteristics, ...

Multistate Duration

Multistate Markov Models for Analyzing Incomplete Life History Data

PAl-LIEN CHEN. Multistate Markov Models for Ana.!yzing Incomplete Life History Data. (Under the direction of Dr. Pranab Kumar Sen.) In most follow-up studies, there may be several types of events or states that characterize individuals experience, and their transition or occurrence rates are of interest. However, owing to the periodic nature of the observations, the information of the transitio...

Dependence of marital problems on parental family history.

The relation of marital complaints to family history was examined in a sample of 1,624 psychiatric outpatients. Marital complaints were recognized to be an aspect of a broader "depressive spectrum disorder" with distinctive age, gender, alcohol, and neurotic depressive symptom characteristics; however, holding constant the depressive spectrum characteristics, a specific independent relation of ...

Active life among the elderly in the United States: multistate life-table estimates and population projections.

Calculations of multistate life expectancy not only measure how long a population may live beyond a certain age, but also what fractions of this continuing lifetime will be spent in an independent or dependent status. Many Americans aged 70 and over are leading long, active lives; large numbers of individuals who become dependent, moreover, do so temporarily and return to independent status. Me...