Complete yearly life tables by sex for Slovenia, 1982-2004, and their use in public health

Abstract

Life tables are an important tool in statistical analysis in many branches of science including public health and epidemiology. In Slovenia, they are recently mostly used in relative survival analyses. For this purpose, we need complete period life tables for each calendar year. Since such life tables have not been available for Slovenia, we calculated our own life tables for years in 1982-2004, stratified by sex. In the article we describe the methodology used for calculation and present some examples on the use of these life tables. The complete life tables are freely available by contacting register@onko-i.si or through the international Human Life-Table Database (http://www.lifetable.de/). We intend to produce life tables for following years as soon the necessary data will be available.