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Research Insights - Expanding the Human Mortality Database to include Cause‐of‐Death Information
Research Insights, a Society of Actuaries Podcast
English - June 12, 2017 04:00 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Education actuarialscience actuaries research societyofactuaries Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This podcast discusses the recently released report describing the Human Mortality Database, a unique open‐access collection of detailed mortality and population data for 38 countries with complete and reliable vital registration and census data. This report overviews the development and completion of the HMD data series down to a cause of death level for an initial set of eight populations: Canada, Czech Republic, England and Wales, France, Japan, Norway, Sweden, and the United States.
For further information please find the report here:
https://www.soa.org/research-reports/2017/2017-hmd-cause-of-death/