Inventory of Federal Statistical Programs Relating to Older Persons

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U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Human Development Services, Administration on Aging, National Clearinghouse on Aging, 1979 - Aged - 113 pages
 

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Page 2 - Commissioner shall take whatever action is necessary to achieve coordination of activities carried out or assisted by all departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the Federal Government with respect to the collection, preparation, and dissemination of information relevant to older persons.
Page 60 - life table" refers to the current life table only and not to the generation life table. The life table program There are three series of life tables prepared in the National Center for Health Statistics— complete, provisional abridged, and final abridged life tables. The complete life tables for the US population contain life table values for single years of age and are based on decennial census data and deaths for a 3-year period about the census year and have been prepared since 1900.
Page 15 - US Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service. Statistics of Income: Individual Income Tax Returns, 1976.
Page 60 - ... period about the census year and have been prepared since 1900. The provisional abridged life tables contain values by age groups and are based on a 10percent sample of deaths. The final abridged life tables (referred to in this section as "abridged life tables") also contain values by age groups but are based on a complete count of all reported deaths. In response to a growing number of requests for postcensal life table values, a series of abridged life tables was initiated in 1945. Available...
Page 54 - The sample design permits estimates to be made for the total population, while at the same time permitting more detailed analysis of data for certain groups at high risk of malnutrition the poor, preschool children, women of childbearing age and the elderly -made possible (Continued) FREQUENCY OF DATA COLLECTION METHOD AVAILABILITY AGE DETAIL Frequency Yrs.
Page 53 - ... age detail, frequency of data collection, method of data storage, availability of unpublished data, time lag of data, publication program, contact person.
Page 1 - The resources listed in this document will serve as a means for persons and organizations in the field of aging to keep abreast of the changing characteristics of the elderly population.

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