A new parametric model to assess delay and compression of mortality

Table 5 Effects of changes in values of parameters of the CoDe model on change in life expectancy at birth between 1950 and 1980, and between 1980 and 2010

	France		Japan		US		Denmark
	women	men	women	men	women	men	women	men
1950–1980
Total change in life expectancy at birth due to	9.22	6.73	17.84	15.79	6.45	4.58	5.66	2.07
delay of mortality (changed in M)	4.81	2.57	6.54	6.37	4.62	2.73	4.33	−1.78
changed in mortality
in young age	3.93	3.48	11.48	10.75	1.68	1.15	1.90	1.75
in middle age	0.69	0.62	−0.04	−1.15	0.37	0.88	−0.48	1.53
above modal age at death	−0.13	0.00	−0.44	−0.36	−0.18	−0.15	−0.01	0.61
unexplained	−0.08	0.05	0.29	0.18	−0.04	−0.02	−0.07	−0.05
1980–2010
Total change in life expectancy at birth due to	6.30	7.88	7.59	6.18	3.73	6.38	4.14	5.94
delay of mortality (changed in M)	4.94	7.74	7.19	5.61	3.18	7.49	2.38	5.99
changed in mortality
in young age	1.25	1.88	0.68	1.08	0.76	1.93	0.59	1.75
in middle age	0.07	−0.91	−0.29	−0.37	0.05	−2.19	1.20	−1.07
above modal age at death	−0.31	−0.43	−0.15	−0.13	−0.24	−0.66	0.00	−0.49
unexplained	0.34	−0.40	0.16	−0.01	−0.02	−0.19	−0.04	−0.24

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