scholarly journals Cohort Working Life Tables for Older Canadians

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank T. Denton ◽  
Christine H. Feaver ◽  
Byron G. Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Life Tables ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male Cohort ◽  
Statistics Canada

We construct cohort working life tables for Canadian men and women aged 50 and older and, for comparison, corresponding period tables. The tables are derived using annual single-age time series of participation rates for 1976-2006 from the master files of the Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey. The cohort calculations are based on stochastic projections of mortality coupled with alternative assumptions about future participation rates. Separate tables are provided for the years 1976, 1991, and 2006, thus spanning a period of substantial gains in life expectancy and strong upward trends in female participation. Life expectancies based on the cohort tables are greater than those based on the period tables, for both men and women, and that is reflected in increased retirement expectancies. For example, a male aged 50 in 1976 could have expected to live three years longer and to have almost four more years in retirement, based on the male cohort table under medium assumptions, as compared with the corresponding period table.

scholarly journals Self-Employment and Labour Market Transitions in New Zealand

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinyi Shao ◽  
Mallika Kelkar
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Labour Market Transitions ◽  
Household Labour ◽  
Market Transitions

Self-employment in New Zealand has been trending up in the past two years, following subdued growth between 2000 and 2010. Self-employed people made up 11.3% of total employed in the year to March 2012 (251,800 workers), compared with 10.1% in the year to March 2010. Self-employment is defined in this paper as those people operating their own business without employees. The paper explores time series trends in self-employment, in particular across three post-recession periods. Characteristics of self-employed workers are also identified. This paper also investigates movements in and out of self-employment in order to understand the recent growth in this type of employment. The analysis uses longitudinal Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS) data. The HLFS provides official measures of a range of labour market indicators, including the number of people employed, unemployed and not in the labour force.

scholarly journals A Time Series Analysis of Female Labour Force Participation Rates Disaggregated by Marital Status

2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 367-384
Author(s):  
William D. Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Time Series Analysis ◽  
Marital Status ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Force Participation ◽  
Female Labour Force Participation ◽  
Participation Rates ◽  
Female Labour ◽  
Series Analysis ◽  
Cyclical Behavior

This paper analyzes the cyclical behavior of the labour force participation rates, adds a marital status dimension to the customary age categories generally used and includes seperate measures of the additionnal and of the discouraged worker effect.

scholarly journals A Review of Labour Force Participation Rates in Pakistan

1973 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-406
Author(s):  
M. Afzal Beg
Keyword(s):  
Economic Activity ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Force Participation ◽  
Population Census ◽  
Agricultural Activity ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Participation Rates

The purpose of this paper is to throw some light on the labour force in Pakistan with respect to its participation in agriculture and non-agricultural activity over the period 1961 through 1971; in addition some comparison is provided between the activity rates of 1951 and 1961. Finally some tentative explanations of the behaviour of labour force participation rates over the last decade are offered. The data on which this study is based has been drawn from the 1951 and 1961 Censuses of Pakistan and from the Labour Force Survey of the Statistical Division, which is carried out as a regular sample enquiry on national basis since 1963. The data from these surveys has been used to provide esti¬mates of economic activity for each year up to 1971. The population census of 1972 did not collect information on labour force activity

A Researcher’s Guide to the Labour Force Survey: Its Evolution and the Choice of Public Use versus Master Files

2021 ◽  
pp. e2020046
Author(s):  
Pierre Brochu
Keyword(s):  
Labour Force ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Master File ◽  
Statistical Agencies ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Statistics Canada

To balance researchers’ need for detailed information with respondents’ confidentiality concerns, statistical agencies such as Statistics Canada commonly offer two versions of the same dataset: a public use file that is readily available and a master file with richer information but to which access is restricted. This article examines the choice of using public use versus master files of the Labour Force Survey (LFS). The article also provides researchers with a unified source of LFS information, including a thorough discussion of the structure of the LFS and its implication for research, such as the creation of mini-panels.

Mortality models incorporating long memory for life table estimation: a comprehensive analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Hongxuan Yan ◽  
Gareth W. Peters ◽  
Jennifer Chan
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Long Memory ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Deviance Information Criterion ◽  
Information Criterion ◽  
Life Tables ◽  
Mortality Data ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Mortality Models

Abstract Mortality projection and forecasting of life expectancy are two important aspects of the study of demography and life insurance modelling. We demonstrate in this work the existence of long memory in mortality data. Furthermore, models incorporating long memory structure provide a new approach to enhance mortality forecasts in terms of accuracy and reliability, which can improve the understanding of mortality. Novel mortality models are developed by extending the Lee–Carter (LC) model for death counts to incorporate a long memory time series structure. To link our extensions to existing actuarial work, we detail the relationship between the classical models of death counts developed under a Generalised Linear Model (GLM) formulation and the extensions we propose that are developed under an extension to the GLM framework known in time series literature as the Generalised Linear Autoregressive Moving Average (GLARMA) regression models. Bayesian inference is applied to estimate the model parameters. The Deviance Information Criterion (DIC) is evaluated to select between different LC model extensions of our proposed models in terms of both in-sample fits and out-of-sample forecasts performance. Furthermore, we compare our new models against existing models structures proposed in the literature when applied to the analysis of death count data sets from 16 countries divided according to genders and age groups. Estimates of mortality rates are applied to calculate life expectancies when constructing life tables. By comparing different life expectancy estimates, results show the LC model without the long memory component may provide underestimates of life expectancy, while the long memory model structure extensions reduce this effect. In summary, it is valuable to investigate how the long memory feature in mortality influences life expectancies in the construction of life tables.

scholarly journals Job-Education Match & Tenure Among Young Canadians: Evidence From The 1997 & 2014 Labour Force Survey

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Turk
Keyword(s):  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
School To Work ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Skill Levels ◽  
Occupational Classification ◽  
Significant Negative Relationship ◽  
Work Transition ◽  
Statistics Canada

In response to the growing supply of postsecondary education graduates and the persistence of overqualification in the Canadian labour market, this study investigates the relationship between the levels of job-education match and tenure among young workers, 25 to 34 years of age, relative to the remaining workforce ages 35 to 64, using a job analysis (JA) approach based on skill levels defined by the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2011 and education credentials defined by Statistics Canada. Using the 1997 and 2014 Labour Force Survey (LFS) files, a significant negative relationship is observed between length of tenure and overqualified workers, and a significant positive relationship with underqualified workers, in addition to significant differences in the effect that being over/underqualified has on tenure based on respondents’ age and survey year. Implications for individual, organizational, and societal stakeholders involved in the school-to-work transition are discussed.

scholarly journals Provisional Estimates of Length of Working life in Pakistan

1967 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-259
Author(s):  
Lee L. Bean
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Life Table ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Specific Activity ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
International Comparisons ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Labour Force Participation ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Male Population

Life table techniques have been used fairly widely to determine the working life of the labour force or work-life expectancy [6; 7; 8; 18; 23]. The length of working life in developing countries, however, is often unknown or estimates are based upon very rigid assumptions which are not realistic given the conditions of labour in such countries. For example, Mortara's international comparisons are based upon the assumption that the activity ages are always 15 to 60 years only (6]. Such an assumption leads to a low estimate of work-life expectancy in count¬ries such as Pakistan where the lower age of large scale labour force participation is, at a minimum, age 10 as officially defined in the labour force statistics and where individuals apparently maintain some connection with the labour force during latter years of life. Specific estimates of the length of working life depend upon fairly refined data including age specific activity rates and a life table. The 1961 Census of Pakistan and the Population Growth Estimation project make such data now available for Pakistan. It is therefore the purpose of this paper to utilize these data to generate and evaluate work-life tables for the male population of East and West Pakistan. This study is restricted to males since female labour force participation in Pakistan is low and the movement of women in and out of the labour force presents many unique problems which have only recently been solved in countries where extensive statistical data are available. Furthermore the analysis presented here deals with the two provinces separately because of mortality [4] and labour differences.

scholarly journals Job-Education Match & Tenure Among Young Canadians: Evidence From The 1997 & 2014 Labour Force Survey

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Turk
Keyword(s):  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
School To Work ◽  
Labour Force Survey ◽  
Skill Levels ◽  
Occupational Classification ◽  
Significant Negative Relationship ◽  
Work Transition ◽  
Statistics Canada

In response to the growing supply of postsecondary education graduates and the persistence of overqualification in the Canadian labour market, this study investigates the relationship between the levels of job-education match and tenure among young workers, 25 to 34 years of age, relative to the remaining workforce ages 35 to 64, using a job analysis (JA) approach based on skill levels defined by the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2011 and education credentials defined by Statistics Canada. Using the 1997 and 2014 Labour Force Survey (LFS) files, a significant negative relationship is observed between length of tenure and overqualified workers, and a significant positive relationship with underqualified workers, in addition to significant differences in the effect that being over/underqualified has on tenure based on respondents’ age and survey year. Implications for individual, organizational, and societal stakeholders involved in the school-to-work transition are discussed.

Analysis of Mortality Data due to Infectious Diseases: Life Table Methods Complementary to Direct Rates

1988 ◽  
Vol 27 (03) ◽  
pp. 137-141
Author(s):  
M. A. A. Moussa ◽  
M. M. Khogali ◽  
T. N. Sugathan
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Life Table ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Total Mortality ◽  
Life Tables ◽  
Mortality Data ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Life Expectancy At Birth

SummaryLife table methods are employed complementary to standard rates to analyse Kuwaiti mortality data due to infectious diseases. The procedure comprises total mortality, multiple-decrement, cause—elimination and cause—delay life tables. To improve reliability of estimated age-specific death rates, the numerator was based on the three-year average of deaths (1981-83), while the denominator was the mid 1982 population projected from the 1980 and 1985 population censuses. To overcome the difficulty of age heaping, both mortality and census data were graduated using the natural cubic spline approach. Proportional mortality was maximum in intestinal infectious diseases particularly in the rural Jahra Governorate. Infectious diseases caused 29.4 and 37.1% of male and female deaths respectively in infancy and early childhood. The male and female life expectancy at birth were 67 and 72 years, respectively.The multiple-decrement life tables showed that 3,346 men and 2,986 women out of the birth cohort (100,000) will ultimately die from infectious diseases. The average number of years lost due to infectious diseases were 0.75 years in both men and women. Relating this loss to the affected (saved) subpopulation only, large gains in life expectancy occur (22.3 and 25.2 years in men and women respectively).

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