Policies and thresholds vary for placing children into out-of-home care (OHC) at different ages. Evidence is lacking that quantifies the risk of entering OHC by age, and how this varies over time and between countries. We determined the age-specific cumulative incidence of ever entering OHC during childhood in Denmark and in eight local authorities in England. We used administrative data for an...

There are several situations in which one can obtain estimates of life-table probabilities of survivorship, I(%), but in which one would still want to smooth' these estimates with reference to a model life table. For example, one could calculate a life table directly by converting observed ,m, values into , q, and hence into l(x) values. In other instances, the I (x ) values available may not d...

Unobserved population heterogeneity and its impact on life-table estimates motivated the introduction of frailty models three decades ago. The concept of latent individual differences repeatedly proved useful in applications and led to important insights, in demography and beyond. This talk reviews the influence that the seminal paper by Vaupel et al. had on demographic research in general and ...

The life table has been used to study mortality and survival in a population and also the pattern of course of various chronic medical illnesses. In this study, the life table has been applied to a cohort of well defined Schizophrenic patients undergoing a long term followup. The probability of occurence of relapses, time of maximum risk for occurence of relapses are estimated using the life ta...

the effect of temperature on demographic parameters of the greater wax moth, galleria mellonella (l.) was studied at 23, 25, 27, and 30 °c, 50 ± 10% rh and a photoperiod of 16:8 (l: d) h. the life table parameters were estimated according to the age-stage, two-sex life table procedure. in addition, the bootstrap technique was employed for estimating the means, variances, and standard errors of ...