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Abstract
Contains information on health expectancies at birth & at age 65 in the United Kingdom.
Main Topics/Subject Category
Life Expectancy (LE), Healthy Life Expectancy (HLE), Disability Free Life Expectancy (DLE) by Sex and age; at birth & aged 65
Variables
Life expectancy at birth (years), disability-free life expectancy at birth (years), life expectancy at 65(years), disability-free life expectancy at age 65 (years)
Keywords
Life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, disability free life expectancy
Identifier Variables
GOR, LA
Economic/Subject Categories
Demographics
Area of Health System
Other
Data Available
Risk behaviours, Socio-economic, Demographic
Data collecting organization (s)
Office for National Statistics
Data Type
Administrative
National/Regional
National
Coverage (date of field work)
1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
Unit of Analysis
Aggregate
Sample
All adults aged 65 and all births (between 1981 - 2004) in England and Wales
Availability
Office for National Statistics (ONS)
Conditions of Access
Free access
Link
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/[…]/Product.asp?vlnk=12964
Contact
hle@ons.gov.uk