What is the mean age at death(yrs) for Swedish men and women divided
according
to marital status - single,married. widowed and divorced for year
2000.Could you give the number in each group.

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Request for Question Clarification by walts-ga on 24 Jun 2002 13:09 PDT

acoppen-ga

You asked about mean age at death for Swedish men and women, according
to marital status, for year 2000.

Unfortunately, while the year 2000 data is available, it is not broken
down by marital status. However, the source agency does provide
contact information in order to obtain additional information. I don't
know if you would accept that as an answer. As such, I won't post this
as an answer - just as a clarification. If it is an answer, leave word
here and I'll then mark it as answered.

Statistics Sweden (  http://www.scb.se/eng/index.asp  ) provides
population statistics ( 
http://www.scb.se/eng/befovalfard/befolkning/befstor/befarlig/befarlig.asp
 ) and specifically, average life expectancy ( 
http://www.scb.se/eng/befovalfard/befolkning/befstor/befarlig/befarliglivsltab.asp
 ).

Their table (Average life expectancy in years 1751 - 2000) shows:
 - Men 2000 77.38 years
 - Women 2000 82.03 years
 - For further information - contact us at:
 ---Email: befolkning@scb.se
 ---Tel: 019-17 6900
 ---Fax: 019-17 6942

I hope this helps.

Regards, walts-ga

Hello Tehuti-ga,
I searched the web over and also could not find the exact figures you
wanted. However, I did go to Sweden’s population statistics site at:
http://www.scb.se/eng/index.asp
I emailed a person there on 6/26/02 asking them for the data you
wanted. Unfortunately, they do not look at the data in that way and
did not have any already prepared tables for you to go to. However,
they did send me an excel file with the deaths in Sweden by age,
gender and marital status. I calculated the mean age at death of the
males and females for the year 2000 by marital status. The figures are
below

Single
Men= 64.1
Women= 73.8

Married
Men= 76.5
Women= 72.7

Widowed
Men= 84.4
Women= 85.6

Divorced
Men= 69.8
Women= 74.5

I hope that is what you were hoping to find. There are a few things to
remember in considering these numbers. No Swedish married, widowed or
divorced persons who died in 2000 were younger than 21 years of age
(men=24, women= 21). That means all the infants through 20 year olds
that died were single. Therefore, the mean age of death of single
people in Sweden in 2000 would be lower since all the children are
included in the single people category.
My search terms to get to the Swedish statistics website were: Swedish
life expectancy.
Hope that helps
Nealc-ga

The best I could find is data for Swedish men from 1983.  It's Table 2
on page 10 of the pdf document
http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol4/10/4-10.pdf

For the year 2000

From http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:J2hmi9DnsSoC:www.who.int/hpr/ageing/Report%2520Sweden%2520.pdf+%22life+expectancy+in+sweden%22+2000&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

"As is the general trend in Europe, life expectancy has gradually
increased since the beginning of the 20th century. Life expectancy in
Sweden is now 77,5 years for men and 82,1 years for women. This
increase is clearly indicative of the general improvement of health.
The fertility rate, though, is only 1,5 births per woman, which is the
lowest since 1750. These two trends will lead to an increased
percentage of elderly people in the population. Today over 18% of the
population are older than 65 years (the retirement age). Five percent
are older than 80years and 83% in this age group are women
(Folkhälsorapporten, 2001)."

If you search on life expectancy rather than age at death, you'll find
plenty of info. Whether or not life expectancy for a given year is
really taken from the age at death, I don't know, but it seems
reasonable.

Hi there,

I have found the mean age at death for men and women without marriage
status:
http://www.scb.se/eng/befovalfard/befolkning/befstor/befarlig/befarliglivsltab.asp

What you could do is take independant data for each and then plot it
yourself to get the data you are looking for.

answerguru-ga

It's not EXACTLY what you're looking for.........but it may help you


Sex ratio: at birth:  1.06 male(s)/female 

under 15 years:  1.05 male(s)/female 

15-64 years:  1.03 male(s)/female 

65 years and over:  0.73 male(s)/female 

total population:  0.98 male(s)/female (2001 est.)  
Life expectancy at birth: total population:  79.71 years 

male:  77.07 years 

female:  82.5 years (2001 est.)

Here's some annual statistics between men and women aswell. Though I
agree with walts-ga, there is no updateted marital info for latest
years in Sweden.
(These are partly finnish documents but to help a little Sweden is
"Ruotsi" in finnish.)

* Age stats
http://www.stat.fi/tk/tp/maailmanumeroina/24_terveys_ja_ravinto.xls 
* Fertility stats
http://www.stat.fi/tk/tp/maailmanumeroina/07_vaesto_ja_vaestonmuutokset.xls

- To0d